 | |||||
| Some early summer pickings: Bush cucumbers, Onions, Tomatoes, Zucchini, Yukon Gold Potatoes. |
First an apology. I did not intend to go so long between posts but spring and early summer is project time and so I have been overly busy recently juggling multiple tasks along with all the other usual attendant responsibilities of life in our descending civilization.
Hopefully many of our blog readers have been able to plant their own gardens this year, and by now, are beginning to harvest the fruits {and vegetables}of their labors. Looking back, weather-wise, to where things stood at about this time last year, this year certainly provides a stark contrast. The flooding that occurred as a consequence of the July 5th storm of last year has almost been wiped from memory by the near drought, dust bowl conditions we have now. Fortunately, here in our little corner of northwest New Jersey, things have not been as severe as elsewhere in the country-half of which seems to be in serious , crop-killing, drought. Already there has been talk of an extremely diminished harvest this fall, so if this remains the case, brace yourselves for sky rocketing food prices in the near future. All the more reason to keep busy in our gardens.
