Mid-Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Honey Flow Moon<\/p>\n
Kate and I have decided on a pick and plan eating method.\u00a0 That is, we’ll pick fresh vegetables, then build a meal around what we have.\u00a0 I picked this morning, for example, green beans, beets, golden and bull’s blood, lettuce, dill, and 7 garlic bulbs.\u00a0 We still have onions from an earlier harvest, so there’s the basics for our lunch or dinner tonight.\u00a0 In addition Mark has picked hundreds, maybe thousands of currants and Kate spent yesterday starting the preservation work.\u00a0 She’s test drying some, making jams and jellies.\u00a0 We’re well into the first significant harvest period though we have had strawberries, lettuce, kale, spinach and onions already.<\/p>\n
The tomatoes I started inside, which looked puny early in the season have grown tall and begun to bloom.\u00a0 That means we’ll get heirloom tomatoes in addition to the two store bought plants.\u00a0 Through integrated pest management I’ve beaten back the yucky scourge Colorado beetles on the potatoes .\u00a0 Boy are they gross.\u00a0 Little fat jabba the hut creatures until they get their wings. The leeks have begun to thicken, not much, but some.\u00a0 The potatoes have blooms and that signals the beginning of tuber growth underground.\u00a0 Lots of onions getting bigger, carrots, too.<\/p>\n
Big-Stone Mini-Golf deserves its own entry and I’ll get to that either later today or tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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