[Homestead] June, July and August
Lynda
lurine at softcom.net
Sat Sep 6 00:38:35 EDT 2008
Well, I don't really wish September to be cool since we had 60 days without
sunshine, the sky being covered in a thick layer of smoke. The garden was
NOT happy and the plants all sat there like bumps on logs. It was 101 today
and tomorrow and the next couple of days are supposed to be the same or
hotter.
HOWEVER, the nights are cooling down which is the problem for the garden. I
swear, if it ain't one thing it's another. The cool nights are making the
pumpkins and watermelons come to a screeching halt. And the tomatoes are
thinking of just sitting there green till the frost comes!
Oh well, as I said before, as long as I have homemade jam (so far
strawberry, boysenberry, black raspberry, red raspberrry, marionberry and
blueberry) and biscuits, what more could one ask for. I did get a load of
watermelon rind pickles done, spicy veggie mix and some zucchini pickles
(bread and butter, dill, and kosher). I mean, the zuc's are gonna grow even
if the world comes to an end <g>
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue at ruralize.com>
> June, July and August are my three least-favorite months here in the
> mid-Ozarks. Their redemption, of course, lies in the cornucopia of
> garden produce. That is the case in a normal year.
>
> This has not been a normal year.
>
> This year was an anomaly. By the end of June we had received forty-two
> inches of rain, which is about our yearly average. With lots of wet
> and less than normal sunshine, the weeds and the bugs responded faster
> than the veggies. The tomatoes had a bad time of it. Now, after three-
> and-a-half inches of Hurricane Gustav's after-showers, only sunshine
> is needed for the second heavy load of green tomatoes to make it to
> ripening. For the first time all year the basil is coming on strong.
> Sweet potatoes look good. Early potatoes were fine. Squash had a devil
> of a time of it; I confidently gave away all of my zucchini plants
> save two and watched in bewilderment as both plants started setting
> fruit and then withered and died. A first.
>
> September is starting out cool. There was a bit of sunshine today.
> Perhaps we will now experience the second coming.
>
> I'm ready for it.
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