Growth.

Just yesterday I went out to my gardens, and just yesterday for the very first time did I think that things had really started to grow!  Maybe it has something to do with having greens I could actually imagine harvesting soon.  Realizing that once we get home from our upcoming trip I won't need to order greens anymore may have been part of it.  Seeing blossoms on our little tomatoes could have been a component.  Perhaps it was the cukes pushing up their row covers.  It could have been the strawberry that Ce harvested.  I won't know which and what factors told me so, but finally I felt like all my garden efforts have been worth something.

Not that I've been working that hard mind you.  It felt like more of a get everything in the ground to the best of my ability, giving as much help as I could and then cross my fingers kind of year.

So now I spread some mulch, I'm using scythed overgrown grass, aka hay, and hoping for the best in terms of seed heads leaving behind their daughters and sons.  I'm hoping that the thick mulch will keep the weeds down.  Experiments that could lead to much work down the road.  All I know is that weeding in and amongst everything this summer does not sound very appealing, so I'll use any help I can get.

I only had one bed that really felt like a fail.  In my 4x8' bed of carrots, only about 10 individual plants have made it...  So I've salvaged what I can and reseeded, the sunnier half with carrots, the back half with cool loving cilantro, arugula and lettuce mix.  The problem with that back bed is it's pretty much shaded until noon, which could be perfect for my cool loving greens...

So fingers crossed for a healthy and happy garden as we enter July.