Hello garden fellows! How does your garden grow as we enter harvest season? I am presently visiting friends in Port Townsend Washington. Yes, leaving the garden is difficult, but I was able to find some friends who could house and garden sit. Risky, you might say but with my anal preparation – WATERING! – and with the fortunate turn to milder weather, Michael and I were able to leave on the last hot day a week ago. Rest, it’s wonderful.
The Moon is waning and will be New early on the 23rd. My waning phase activities are definitely “passive,” being on vacation. As a reminder to readers, waning or “passive” phase activities are not plant specific, except for the planting of root crops and this should really have been done before mid-August. This is a good time to weed, pull out waning crops, harvest ant process crops.
I’m harvesting tomatoes finally! My garden sitters are putting them in my cool storage. I’ll begin canning when I get back from Washington.
