It’s Thankful Thursday and whether it’s climate change or all the rain we had this spring and summer, I’m grateful for my bountiful garden harvest.
Everything here is green and growing. Including the lawn. Well, I’m not really all that grateful for the grass growth. By now we normally don’t have to mow more than once a week. This July we stayed in June mode, with mowing every 4 or 5 days. But the garden is producing more than the two of us can keep up with. That means weeds too. Hmm, that doesn’t sound too grateful. But here’s the harvest so far–broccoli, lettuce, beets and beet greens, spinach, radishes, zucchini–let me know if you need any. Tomatoes are fattening and growing. I picked the first cucumber yesterday.
And the bumper crop of raspberries is amazing. All the neighbors have been invited to pick berries. For the first time, Japanese beetles have invaded and nibbled on the berry and grape leaves. Left to their own appetites, they’d turn all the leaves to lace. We put out a beetle trap–an amazing contraption with a sexy lure. I picture horny little beetles zooming in for love and finding they’re in the bag. Luckily they didn’t discover the roses before we put out the trap.
Gotta go pick some more produce. Maybe I should set up my laptop at a produce stand out by the highway. Not.
