Things on the farm are about the same.
Still waiting on the hay crew; we may sever connections with them
very shortly since our old crew said they would be happy to do ours
again. When someone doesn't show and doesn't call as promised I am
done!!!
We are hot and dry here. In fact, I
have been rotating watering things regularly. I am still behind on
trimming and mulching but I try to do a little each day
most days. I miss some days completely for one reason or another.
I have cucumbers up at last. So far
none of the summer squashes has made an appearance.
I hoed out the strawberry row this
morning and will water it again and then mulch with straw. The
plants are finally putting out runners.
Also mowed the west yard. I did the
east side a day or so ago. Max is keeping the orchard under control.
I need to spray again; maybe tomorrow.
Cooking
This was bread day. I made my favorite
recipe of French Bread.
Garden and yard
Harvested my three broccoli plants before
the groundhog could finish them off:
I used the third head for a raw
broccoli, onion and bacon salad. We loved it even our
granddaughter and her friend who were visiting. It call for raisins
but the girls requested I leave them out! They each had two helpings.
I think this recipe made the church dinner circuit back in the 80's
and was called trees and raisins salad.
In bloom: roses, rose campion,
begonias, still a few poppies, garden heliotrope (my one plant),
clematis, two kinds of salvias, a daylily or two, some self-seeded
cosmos, lavender, malva sylvestris,
green agastache (it is ahead of the
gold one)....I think that is it.
Finally a dark lavender one very like
Lauren's Grape that I planted several years ago.
The camera finally captured the true red:
and garden heliotrope/valeriana
officinalis.
I think this is the plant Ilene was
talking about finding in her garden. I may be guilty of sending the
plant but more probably some seeds.
Max has been taking some farm photos for me. Several I liked so much I have done an album called the 'Tree Series'.
This is one. I couldn't puzzle out that bright blue spot until I zoomed and cropped. It was a small pool of water catching the sky.
I think I will end here. My enthusiasm
seems to be waning for gardening and blogging. Maybe it will pass.
