Sherrieflower's Blog

Overwhelmed
Jul 18, 2008 | 4:18 PM PST
Tag: this years garden july update

Hot humid July -- I don't do well in hot weather - it just wilts me so I barely have the energy to keep up with everything.  And July is a busy month.  Blueberries are on full bore now so while I am busy picking berries the grass weeds stage a coup and take over the rest of my gardens.  I 've also been picking red and black raspberries but about at the end of the blacks.  

I tried laying down newspapers and mulching between my fruit trees but must not have had enough layers coz now the weeds are worse than ever.  I wanted to get it so I could plant strawberries in between the fruit trees and double the production of my orchard + lay in irrigation but now I don't know what I am going to do coz its worse now that I can't get in there and mow at all.  My husband has been so busy with his work that he hasn't been available to helping me with anything at all lately and I am really missing  not having any help.

  I do have a friend who enjoys coming over to help me pick blueberries and it is more fun when she is here to help. 

I just wrote a long update but when I went to post it - it said I was not logged in  = rrrggghhh! so somehow I got kicked out after logging in or something -  so anyway - the reason i have not been on in a while is because I am working my fool head off in my gardens.  We started Tuesday night markets which we will do in addition to our Sat. markets for about 5 weeks. 

I have canned beets,[deer tore up several leaving the roots on the ground] and am picking berries and green beans and starting to harvest my yukon gold potatoes.  the garlic will soon be ready to harvest and i don't know where I am going to put everything.  My house is a mess with market preparations, canning, + trying to recupe from having company for the last 2 weeks. 

I saw the fox kits 3 times on Weds. they are getting bigger but still pretty skinny.  They are so cute and don't even run and hide anymore when they see me - they are so curious, they just watch me unless I get too close.  I saw one chase a rabbit into the woods last week but don't know whether or not he caught it. 

My 35th wedding anniversary is coming up next week followed by my birthday about 5 days later then exactly 2 weeks from  my birthday is my husband's.  

I am so exhausted I think I've got to re-think a few things and try to simplify my life a little more for next summer

 

this year's garden= - radishes, yukon gold potatoes, spinach, sugar snap peas, collard greens, Swiss Chard, salad greens, onions, shallots, garlic,  sweet potatoes, kohlrabi, flat leaf parsley,  cucumber, carrots, beets, green beans, black beans, tomatoes, rutgers,  & health kick,  peppers - sweet banana, Big Bertha, jalapeno, cayenne, anaheim, marconi, zucchini, yellow, acorn, spaghetti, & butternut squashes, baby boo, jack be little and lumina pumpkins, eggplant, basils, sugar baby & moon & stars watermelon, cilantro, dill, chamomile,

fruit= blueberries, black and red raspberries, strawberries, peaches, apricots

flowers - snapdragon, carnation, lavender, celosia, feverfew, calendula, lupine, echinops, zinnia, bachelor button, marigold, canna, baby's breath, yarrow, purple coneflower, day lily, lilies, gladioli,  etc,

the grass weeds are so bad now in the garden, I wish I could just mow everything down and start over but we'll just have to get along the best we can for the rest of the season.