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 […]
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Summer Poem
Looking for Gold A flavor like wild honey beginswhen you cross the river. On a sandbarsunlight stretches out its limbs, or is ita sycamore, so brazen, so clean and so bold?You forget about gold. You stare—and a flavoris rising all the time from the trees.Back from the river, over by a thickforest, you feel the […]
too * * * * HOT
summer is well upon us here in georgia. the temperatures have already beencalled “unseasonably”warm by the tv weathermen. it is already up into the 90’s,much more like our mid-july dog days….although the nights are still pleasantly cool,the fresh morning flowers are limp in the afternoon sun, despite all mywatering. like the summer squash plants in […]
Bagging Beetles
Well, now that the Japanese beetles have chewed my garden to bits and multiplied beyond description… we have finally bought, assembled, and hung those bags that have the pheromones. Wow, do they work. The bags fill up fast with thousands of beetles…. and they still keep coming. But we had to do something, and while […]
Sweet Corn Time
Sweet corn time coincides with tomato time around here. This year both are a little tardy due to the unwelcoming weather of the 2008 spring, but they are on their way! I noticed my tomatoes are growing nicely, but they aren’t red yet. We were a bit remiss about weeding them out this year, too, […]
Summertime is for Reading Books
That’s right. Sometimes it is too hot to weed and I am too lazy. So I go to the library and load up on gardening books (mainly). That is part of my obsession with gardening, and somewhat easier on the back… although I find my mind is more cultivated than my yard that way. Since […]
