Garden Rapport

A week of temperatures in the nineties and adequate moisture, and the garden has transformed. Last week, I was selectively thinning lettuce to get enough for a salad; this week, I can’t pick it fast enough. Last week, I was pulling every other beet to use the greens; this week, they are already too big.

The tomato plants have doubled in size and are blossoming. The potatoes are blossoming. The squash seem to grow inches every day. Probably five quarts or more of strawberries so far. And soon, I will pick the first zinnia.

The weeds of course, are having their day as well. I pulled five wheel-barrow loads from the cottage garden alone. So it grows.