Lughnasa Waning Green Corn Moon
The peas have come down and this week the garlic will go in the ground, an experiment suggested by the former editor of Organic Gardening at the Seed Savers Exchange conference. This is about a month plus earlier than suggested by other garlic growers, including Seed Savers Exchange. He claims it gives greater yield. Since my new varieties of garlic will not come until September 10th or so, I’ll have a ready comparison the same beds.
A more summer like Sunday with the temperature here 79. I have no tours for a while (August 28) and the Sierra Club work will not pick up real steam until late September, so I have a long stretch I can devote to the garden. Instead of trenching today Kate took the truck. I need the truck to pick up the Ditch Witch. The trench will get dug tomorrow morning instead.
Many people have begun to evaluate Obama’s performance so far. The best article I’ve seen is in this month’s Rolling Stone. It has David Gergen, Paul Krugman and Michael Moore. All agree he’s done better than could have been expected, but the problems facing him, especially health care reform and the economy, may require better than that. Neither one takes well to part way solutions. Either health care reform achieves universal coverage and cost containment, at a minimum, or whatever happens may not be seen as successful. Likewise with the economy a tepid recovery or a prolongation of the deep recession past the next few months will be seen as failures. The economic fixes need to start gaining traction soon and they need to result in real improvement.
