{"id":10505,"date":"2020-08-25T01:56:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T06:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10505"},"modified":"2020-08-25T06:04:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T11:04:45","slug":"notes-from-the-garden-late-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10505","title":{"rendered":"notes from the garden: late august"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often neglect to show photos from the garden in the height of summer. It&#8217;s overgrown and I spend all my time there watering and picking and weeding and then I get home and think, &#8220;I should have taken some photos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have young bean plants and hope to have beans in early October, which is still plenty warm in the mid-Atlantic. I planted about a dozen varieties, so I will be pleasantly surprised by what shows up.<\/p>\n<p><center><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50266177433\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Beans\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50266177433_6bd2fa1264_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Beans\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have a bounty of cherry tomatoes. Marauders of the two- and four-footed varieties have plagued our community garden this summer, so most big tomatoes were picked. (I try to be Zen about it &#8212; I don&#8217;t <em>need<\/em> the food I grow. Maybe the people who hop our fence would otherwise go hungry. But it can be frustrating until I remind myself of that fact.) But the cherry tomatoes mostly have survived, and mine have branched out everywhere, including vertically down into my bunching onions.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50266837726\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Cherry Tomatoes Everywhere\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50266837726_2d58fa4f56_w.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Cherry Tomatoes Everywhere\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The cucumber plant continues to be very productive, giving me one every week or so. There are plenty more flowers, so I&#8217;d expect productivity to continue through September, at least. (Side note: homemade pickles are delicious.)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50267017642\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Cucumber\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50267017642_a05a9d0985_w.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Cucumber\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have had a stellar year with my cone flowers. Here you can see the various stages they go through:<\/p>\n<p><center><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50267017707\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Lifespan of My Cone Flowers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50267017707_28cf44d645_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Lifespan of My Cone Flowers\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not pictured but also growing: Herbs, potatoes, peppers, zucchini flowers (but never actual zucchini).<\/p>\n<p>I still need to get some seeds in the ground for fall greens. 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