{"id":11383,"date":"2021-06-28T01:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T06:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=11383"},"modified":"2021-06-28T03:34:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T08:34:05","slug":"notes-from-the-garden-late-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=11383","title":{"rendered":"notes from the garden: late june"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My peas are drying up and the lettuces have reached their teenage years &#8212; tall and gangly. We&#8217;ve reached the summer gardening season just in time for the July heat to kick in.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/51276898340\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"June Gardening\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51276898340_a4c508f529_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"June Gardening\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/51276898380\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"June Gardening\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51276898380_f205243374_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"June Gardening\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Other people have the ability to have space in between their plants and to separate, weed, and clear things out with ruthless efficiency. I like my violets too much, so I tug their leaves when they get too tall, which just means they send up new ones the following month. Things grow, and because I don&#8217;t know for sure if they&#8217;re weeds or cultivated plants, I just leave them. All this is to say that my garden inevitably looks highly messy, but it&#8217;s just jammed full of goodness.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, look at all these greens!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/51275124507\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"June Gardening\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51275124507_be55ae52bd_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"June Gardening\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The cucumbers, peppers, and squash are growing (Mum, the cucumber is the one I bought before I came north, not the ones we split).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/51276042983\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"June Gardening\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51276042983_6dd297580e_w.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" alt=\"June Gardening\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/51276898365\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"June Gardening\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51276898365_a2dd9bbbbc_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"June Gardening\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/51276603984\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"June Gardening\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51276603984_04c2c36b2d_w.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" alt=\"June Gardening\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My next round of flowers are getting ready to blossom:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/51276042708\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"June Gardening\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51276042708_d9618fdbe1_w.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" alt=\"June Gardening\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m harvesting the celery I planted back in the spring, and I brought home two of the everbearing strawberries for Rudi. (I ate the other one &#8212; so sweet!) The lemon balm has gotten out of control. Anyone have any recommendations for things to do with it?<\/p>\n<p>And my bronze fennel will be attracting lots of pollinators:<\/p>\n<p><center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/51276898055\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"June Gardening\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51276898055_b381e32d2a_w.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" alt=\"June Gardening\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to be a gardener!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My peas are drying up and the lettuces have reached their teenage years &#8212; tall and gangly. We&#8217;ve reached the summer gardening season just in time for the July heat to kick in. 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