Monday, July 18, 2011

a summer day

This morning I worked for six hours in the garden. I planted some mustard, pruned and tied up tomatoes, picked tomatoes, and forked and weeded. When it finally got too hot to be out in the sun, Kevin and I went to the creek. We took a mask and snorkle and held on to the big rocks where the water rushes through little bottlenecks and watched the bubbles glistening in the sunlight, dappled through the leaves of a big Sycamore. I made a tomato and cucumber salad with basil and the vinegar our CSA customer gave us on Saturday. Where the water swirls around, you can feel the warm and cold water mixing. We had the whole place to ourselves for a couple hours. It was like being at a private resort. I found a great geode. I feel so lucky to have such a wonderful life.

We're starting our second 10-week period this week. I planted more chard yesterday, and the squash I planted late last week is already up. Hopefully the bugs will let us have a few more squash before it will suddenly be frost season again. The tomatoes are going crazy; we sold over 30 lbs of tomatoes at the market on Saturday! We also sold all our greens and a half bushel of cucumbers--all by 11am. The mung beans are up, and soon I have to start thinking about cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, turnips, rutabagas, radishes, Asain greens, lettuce, more kale...

Back to work!

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