2018 garden enjoying sun
So, my garden is now, totally in the ground.
This year I planted garlic, onions, lettuce, beets, spinach, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, cucumbers (still considering zucchini), green beans, asparagus, of course and herbs like basil and Italian parsley.
I finished putting the last Bianca Rosa in the ground Saturday morning.
Baby Bianca Rosa eggplant
Saturday evening, we got 70 MPH winds, driving hail and torrential rain with a side order of thunder and lightning and the threat of a tornado!
The baby eggplant survived…and seem to be settling in to their truck bed.
But I live outside of Philadelphia…in Pennsylvania! We don’t get tornadoes. Oh, wait, we do now courtesy of the non-existent global warming and the ever increasing turbulence of our weather and of the very earth itself.
It has rained every day since last Tuesday. It is going to rain again tonight. In fact, we are under a flood watch from 4PM today to 2AM tomorrow morning. We might get a day or two of clearing, then all that rain that is currently drowning Floridians will be…here.
Tomato plants hanging on, literally
Even my tomatoes have toughed it out…although they are looking just a bit “wan.”
As with every year, there are, of course challenges – bugs…rabbits, deer. But this year, it seems that Mother Earth is setting about re-balancing her planet – with or without us.
But there will be vegetables and fruit in my backyard this summer. Most of these plants will survive. And so will I. I will keep on gardening, keep growing.
My garden will grow
And I will keep praying that we, the humans who inhabit this planet, slow down a bit, become more aware of the risk and start backpedaling from taking, using, devouring and otherwise destroying this magnificent home on which live and orbit the universe.