The broccoli is floreting:
The cabbage is becoming heady:
We’re staggering our corn crop this year. Here are the elder rows, reaching for the sky…
…while the youngest are beginning to sprout.
We’re also staggering our green bean crop. Here are the elder rows, which should start beaning out soon now…
…and here are the young’uns.
And meanwhile on the mountain are multiple clusters of ghost flowers — even more than last year.
The tadpoles are doing well, and as long as we keep getting decent rain, their pond should prove sufficient for frogging out.
And last but never least, the mountain laurel is blooming.
On the writing front: I’m brainstorming my next novel-to-be, Deirdre of the Sorrows, while I allow Heart’s Chalice, the novel for which I recently completed first-pass revisions, to bake. Come July, I’ll dive into second-pass revisions for Heart’s Chalice. In the meantime, my muse is having great time with Deirdre.
I haven’t felt as creative with short fiction and poetry lately, but that creativity is going, instead, into music (songwriting). Believe me, I’m not complaining. I love time spent at my piano.
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Is ‘floreting’ a real word – haha. Your garden is exploding – I’m jealous. I’ve decided to segregate my chickens so I can get a vege patch up and running again (they’ll just have less room to move).
lol, nope — I made up “floreting” on the fly.
Sounds good to segregate your chickens from your veggies. I hope your veggies (and your chickens) do well! We used fertilizer in our garden this year, and oh my goodness, I think it’s turning into a jungle!
Oh, your garden looks so happy. It must know you love it.
Good to learn the tads are doing so well.
It sounds like you are really busy with writing. Your books are coming right along with your garden, and it seems that you’ve staggered them, too.
*grin!* Thanks, Leah! You’re right, that garden knows we love it. And an excellent observation you made, that I’m staggering my books like we’re staggering our crops. The novel-staggering is a method I’ve hit on over the last few years that seems to work oh-so-well, re: feeding the muse and pacifying the inner editor’s need to whack.
beautiful garden
Thank you, Paige. And we’re already starting to get yummies.
I really need to make sure I’ve eaten something before I see your veggies- I’m Soooo hungry now n jealous of all that grand produce! I so want some!
I’m trying container beets n turnips covered with hardware wire to head off critters. Got a few leaves showing at least. Staggering is a good idea- think I should too. I’ll be happy if I get to eat anything. was hoping chamomile would do better too… want tea.
Have you rotated crop positions?
I think your tadpole pic is so excellent! Is that a salamander upper-body hiding to his left?
Glad to see you are still running full-steam ahead creativity. How I’d love to ditch the job n do just that (after a full week of sleep of course) So many projects waiting for time for the next step here…
Hi, Snaggle! The harvest has officially begun — we’re picking cucumbers, green peppers, cabbage heads, zucchini, and onions and my stir fries are getting yummier! Good luck with your beets and turnips — sounds yummy, and I love chamomile tea, too. We haven’t tried growing herbs except for sage last year, and it didn’t do so well.
And holy moly, but that is a salamander hiding to the left of the tadpole! I’m tickled you saw the salamander. I didn’t notice! Salamanders have got camouflage down to an art, but the tadpole pond is filled with them.
Yeah, I was extremely lucky to be able to ditch the day job — I never take that for granted. The funny thing is I’m far busier now than I was then, between house and garden and outdoor activities, and my writing and other creative projects, but the “busy” is more enjoyable.
every thing is looking so full of summer, the ghost flowers are hauntingly beautiful
Thank you, Crafty! I’m delighted to find even more ghost flowers this year than last.
The ghost flower are really enchanting! The beans are really in a good condition. Congrats on that one! I heard that mountain laurel is poisonous to several different animals due to andromedotoxin and arbutin, including horses, goats, cattle, sheep, and deer. To cats, dogs and other small household pet cannot be poison by this plant.
Hi, Rose! Thanks for visiting my blog. I love the ghost flowers. I’m not seeing them now because we’re having a major dry spell, but when we start getting rain again, hopefully they’ll pop back up.
And such interesting information about the mountain laurel — thanks!