The Bulbs of Summer and Catalog Update
“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
The Solstice is one of those great times of the year in Oregon, memories of those June days as a kid where it was warm and stayed light so long, and the school year was finished. Playing with friends down by the creek and my old yellow lab named skipper always bounding around with us on our adventures. Those are great memories.
This is one of those peaceful moments as a gardener where I get the slightest little break. The bulbs, save for a few I'll show you below are mostly waiting patiently for the hectic time of harvest to begin and need no water or care. It's subtle but the warmth and heat of summer make the weeds take a little pause it seems and I can catch my breath for a moment. The vegetable garden is planted and growing along, bringing fresh produce into the meal plan. The Cherries are ripe and ready for harvest and even the Josta berries are sweetening on the vine, which means the busy work of harvest is about to begin again, but for now I'm soaking in the warmth and the longest days of the year.
The Border planting is filling in nicely. |
Triteleia peduncularis I have this planted with Penstemons and Senecio's and it does a wonderful job of foiling those in the dry bed, to make a really good show, among the purples and silver. |
Catalog Update: I'm thinking with the way this spring turned out to be so warm and dry it will probably push the harvest up a bit this year. I'm thinking about starting sometime after the Fourth and seeing what it looks like at that point. I'll update as we get closer but I'm hoping to get the list out late July, shipping the first couple weeks of August and be done in time to get the kiddo off to university at the end of August. In the mean time I'll try to pack in what little summer I have.
Heat waves in the forecast, It's been in the 90's for much of this week and the weekend is showing triple digits!
Cheers,
Mark