I have not posted in the last couple of weeks. I guess I was just a bit disheartened! After we got the deer fenced out, the rain affected the cucumbers. Our last couple of waves of cabbage are rotting due to this being one of the wettest July’s on record. Some cabbages have survived, but they are small because the rain stunted their growth. Just the way it is in 2024! But the sweet bell peppers are enormous as are the beautiful eggplant. The tomatoes are starting to ripen! And the cucumber plants are still alive, so perhaps they will be more later if the deer allow?
And a doe broke in again today! We are running out of repair footage!! And this one has twins. When added to the other single, that’s a lot of new offspring being taught the “joys of eating” in the Ploeger Garden. Wildlife is a constant problem for us, but they also provide so many memorable moments of joy, so . . . gotta love ’em!
In the box you can expect potatoes, small green cabbage, orange carrots, string-less, green beans, small red beets, huge sweet, green bell peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, and perhaps a bit of okra or yellow broad-beans. We trust we will have a cantaloupe for everyone this week, too. It will be ripe and ready to eat! So cut it up right away, put it into an airtight container, and refrigerate until you are ready to consume it!
The sunflowers area constant source of joy as well. They attract singing birds and buzzing bees to perform a musical backdrop while performing the duties of the garden.
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