Garden of Rambunctiousness
So it’s been a long, chilly, rainy spring. Then BOOM just like that we get a week of sweltering, humid, hot summer weather.
My garden veggies aren’t exactly flourishing but everything is growing crazily all over the place. It’s a chaotic garden full of life: thorns, bees, snails (damn them), flowers, scents, humming birds, toads, weeds, ants and unpruned everything.
My grape vines are throwing lengthy tendrils toward the roof and the sweetpeas grew 8ft tall this year. My tomato plants are all sort of squat and short like Danny DeVito but at least each one has a few green fruit growing on it. The lavender is going nuts but for some reason many of the flower stalks are leaning to the side. I’m not sure why, could a bunch of fat bees tilted the stalks to the ground when they landed on them?
My multigrafted apple and peach trees are full of fruit which is very exciting. I didn’t put a net over the trees like I had for a few years running and so far the squirrels are being a bit more respectful than they have in the past. I’m willing to share the harvest but drew the line when they started ransacking the trees every day, taking a single bite to check for ripeness, then throwing the green fruit everywhere.
‘Cause buddy, you may be cute but DON’T MESS WITH MY FRUIT!
