Summer Most Heat Moon
Spent the morning first spraying, then in the garden weeding the vegetable beds and harvesting beets and carrots. After the first beet crop was out of the ground, I planted the third. The second is already growing in another bed and between open spaces created by earlier harvests.
The beets and the carrots all go into the hod, a metal mesh with two wooden ends and a curved wooden handle for carrying. The wire mesh is useful with roots crops because it allows the hose to get all sides, including the underside of just picked vegetables.
Inside I prepped the beets, boiled them, skinned them and they now await some other action, one I’ve not chosen. Or, perhaps more than one.
A few of the carrots and a handful of green beans, picked this morning, too, got heated up and eaten with the remaining lamb from the rack of lamb we had the last night Ruth and Jon were here. These were from last November when I got a good deal on a Byerly’s order, brought to me since I had no vehicle. I had rack of lamb for Thanksgiving while Kate had Thanksgivukkah with the Denver Olsons.
