Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Summer Moon<\/p>\n
The garlic harvest is in the shed drying.\u00a0 The mature bulbs now lie, a bit dirty, on an old screen I use for drying vegetables we intend to store.\u00a0 It was a good harvest and, if last year is a rule, it is enough garlic to last us the full year until next July.\u00a0 Some of these bulbs, about half, come from cloves I grew two years ago.\u00a0 Very satisfying.<\/p>\n
I dug up a bit of a potato plant to see if they’re ready to harvest for new potatoes, but they are not..\u00a0 The potatoes ranged from tiny, about the size of the tip of my little finger, to one that would cover about half of my palm.\u00a0 The last time I grew potatoes was on my farm, The Peaceable Kingdom.\u00a0 One fine September evening I took a hit of mescaline and lay among the potatoes, the sky blue overhead.\u00a0 The potatoes grew, visibly, as I lay there, shaking gently and rising slowly from the soil.\u00a0 I could feel the tubers beneath me swell.\u00a0 It was a direct and wonderful connection to a garden.\u00a0 Wish the rest of the time had been that pleasant.<\/p>\n
Moving stuff around in the basement so Jon can build us a wall for our storage cellar.\u00a0 That’s next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Summer Moon The garlic harvest is in the shed drying.\u00a0 The mature bulbs now lie, a bit dirty, on an old screen I use for drying vegetables we intend to store.\u00a0 It was a good harvest and, if last year is a rule, it is enough garlic to last us the full year … Continue reading The Harvest Has Well Begun<\/span>