Midsummer

Like a number of states around the country, NJ has been feeling the heat.  Lettuce, spinach and peas are long gone (though we ate more of each category than ever) and the hot weather loving veg has taken off.  Harvest from yesterday shows a typical haul of late:

Cucumber, carrots, corn, peppers.  Kale has been producing like a champ as well and we’re eating it once or twice a week.  Beans come in here and there, but not in the quantities I was used to back in Maine.  I think I’ve placed these plants, yet again, in a bad spot – at the tail end of a bed that is too shady.  I manage to harvest a beet here and there, but the critters dug most of those up and just left them there untouched.  Like they were just disgusted when it turned out to be a beet  and said “awwww man, I don’t want that” and threw it aside.  Oh, how I am mistreated by nature.  I’m looking at you, kid.

Will have some tomatoes ready sometime soon.  And some volunteer melons!  Stay cool, y’all.