We have been spending the mornings in the garden, getting as much done as we can before the heat hits. The weeds got away from us while we were working on the cow shed so there's a lot to do. While we're out there, we're noticing many things ready to pick, like this beautiful head of cabbage.
Here is today's harvest — head lettuce, cabbage, radishes, turnips, and shell peas.
We just finished our last read aloud from last "year" but with so many peas to shell, I think we'll start another one tonight.
Last fall we planted some carrots, hoping to harvest them in early spring, but when we pulled some in March they were kind of woody. So they've been sitting in the garden ignored. They are now five feet tall and blooming, but they're shading the tomatoes so they have to come out.
In the last week the wheat has gone from solid green to lots of yellow. It's time to get out the book and figure out when we harvest and dry and all of that.
Our neighbor discovered a badger burrowed under his hay shed. He got rid of it, but now we wonder if it got some of our chicks. They don't stand still long enough to count, so we won't know until butcher day when we can count them.
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