82 bar falls 29.66 1mph E dew-point 73\u00a0 sunrise 5:55 sunset 8:43 Summer<\/p>\n
Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon<\/p>\n
Dead headed the lilium today, their bloom period is almost past.\u00a0 Buddhists say flowers get their beauty from their transience.\u00a0 Makes sense.\u00a0 The flower symphony I outlined a few posts ago honors this notion, seeing the transience as\u00a0 beautiful.\u00a0 The hemerocallis, or day lilies have begun to come into their own, vigorous and bountiful.\u00a0 Their multi-colored, short-lived flowers will grace our garden for some time.<\/p>\n
The acorn squash plant that had designs on much of the area in its not so immediate surround had to give up some of its space today.\u00a0 While cutting back the vine, I harvested squash blossoms for soup or salad.\u00a0 This vine has small prickles on it, stay away signals.<\/p>\n
Kate harvested four of the Cherokee Purple tomatoes yesterday.\u00a0 They are huge.\u00a0 They taste sweet, a subtle flavor with undertones.\u00a0 One slice covered the bottom of the salad plate on which I put it.\u00a0 The heirlooms have a different feel, a different texture on the palette.\u00a0 Sort of like eating history.\u00a0 I imagine pioneers or turn of the century farmers plucking these giants and serving them up just as I did, slice after slice with a little salt and pepper, no need for garnish.<\/p>\n
The corn, some of it, has tassles.\u00a0 With tassles, ears of corn are not far behind.\u00a0 This is Country Gentelmen, a shoe peg white corn with irregular kernels.\u00a0 The beans planted in the space between their rows flourish, too, as do the second planting of beets in the bed now vacated by the garlic.\u00a0 Today, too, I plan to dig up all the onions and put them on a large screen to dry, then bag.\u00a0 There are a lot of onions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
82 bar falls 29.66 1mph E dew-point 73\u00a0 sunrise 5:55 sunset 8:43 Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon Dead headed the lilium today, their bloom period is almost past.\u00a0 Buddhists say flowers get their beauty from their transience.\u00a0 Makes sense.\u00a0 The flower symphony I outlined a few posts ago honors this notion, seeing the … Continue reading One Slice Covers a Salad Plate<\/span>