For me, the Fourth is the watershed of summer….everything builds to this place of heat, picnics, and fireworks, and is downhill from there on through to the last gasp of summer, Labor Day. Maybe because the mystery is gone by the fourth of July. I know whether my seedlings thrived, what the insect populations are […]
July
A Japanese Beetle Plague
Japanese beetles have struck my garden again. Out mowing, I noticed the Stella cherry tree was bronze with skeletonized leaves. Coming closer it was filled with the terrible metallic armored beetles munching away. It gives me the willies to mow underneath these infested trees because a rain of beetles comes down on me when I […]
Mowing and Weeding
Sorry the pictures aren’t up yet, I’ve kept too busy to blog properly, although I have tried to keep the facebook going. Mowing and weeding are all we are doing right now. Ohio has turned into a rain forest, it seems, the perennials are lush and the grass abundant. Unfortunately, the fields have flooded and […]
Rural Observations
This week I traveled from mid-Ohio to mid-Indiana, and there is quite a bit of rural landscape to be enjoyed along such a route. I keep track of how the farm crops are doing since I live in the midst of corn and soybean country here. As might be expected, even with the rain we […]
July ’07 State of the Garden
Lavender Walk I have been gardening, not blogging, and this was one of my resolutions for 2007. So far so good. It has been hot here, but we received some rain earlier this month; a huge downpour on the Fourth, which as a lady at Curve’s said “We will take what ever comes and not […]
July has its own poetry
We go in withering JulyTo ply the hard incessant hoe;Panting beneath the brazen skyWe sweat and grumble, but we go. -Ruth Pitter, 1897-1992, The Diehards, 1941 Technorati Tags: summer poetry, Ruth Pitter
