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Kate and I spent time working in the garden this am. \u00a0I plucked out extra beets, collard greens and chard. \u00a0Getting a second round of all these underway. \u00a0The tomatoes have grown fat, tall and filled with fruit so I got out the plastic tomato handcuffs and cuffed separate stalks to the red metal supports. \u00a0Barring a drop in temps (unlikely, eh?) we’ll have a big tomato harvest. \u00a0The leeks and potatoes continue strong, dark green. \u00a0Both of these develop out of sight, as do the carrots, but the above ground leaves and stems give good evidence of their overall health.<\/p>\n
Kate put out water for the bees while I was gone. \u00a0A neighbor called and said she had a lot of dead bees in her bird bath. \u00a0Not sure it was due to lack of water but it never hurts to add water for them. \u00a0I forgot that when I moved them into the orchard. \u00a0It’s looking like \u00a0this will be a non-honey harvest year which means I’ll have to do the work to \u00a0overwinter these colonies, something I did not want to do anymore. \u00a0 Ah, well. \u00a0So much for that management idea.<\/p>\n
Kate does a wonderful job of keeping our garden beautiful by fighting the good fight against weeds and other invaders. \u00a0She is, as she names herself, “a ninja weeder.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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