Come on in, take a look at my garden laid out for you on my kitchen counter. This is my kitchen right now as I remember in this holiday weekend that today is actually Monday, time to gather around Daphne’s blog to share our harvest for the week. It does me good to lay it all out for a photo before I start peeling, chopping, cooking. I say it does me good because I have been pretty discouraged at times during this unusually cold summer. Everything I’ve learned in twelve years of gardening in this place has been turned upside down. I find it energizing to see that in spite of it all I have a good harvest in front of me, right now, on my kitchen counter. We had to wait a while for the warm weather to arrive, it took a while for the bounty to come, but here it is, right now, on my kitchen counter.
This renewed sense of energy has me plotting a garden enlargement. Next year I’ll have enough room to keep a cool weather and a warm weather garden going on simultaneously. This way, I hope I’ll be ready for whatever kind of summer comes my way. This year I had better nightshade weather in March that in July. Next year I’ll have nightshades in the ground in March and in July. I’ll be just hedging my bets. Whatever doesn’t work the compost will be happy to eat up. And all the happy vegetables? Those we will enjoy at the table.
For more delicious pictures and stories of harvests and to add your own, head on over to Daphne’s Dandelions, host of Harvest Monday, and take a look at what other gardeners have been up to this week.
