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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: Homestead <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] June, July and August
  • Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:08:59 -0500

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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