A Bountiful Summer in 2025

 

Last summer a heatwave smothered us from July until nearly mid-October, cooking fruit on the vines and killing the vegetation. We had no potatoes, few tomatoes, and only a handful of beans, not even enough for a side dish for two.

This year, we are truly blessed with a summer harvest of potatoes from the pots and one raised bed. Tomatoes have been bountiful, the wax beans absolute beasts, the cucumbers amazing.

Those yellow wax beans are 7 - 8" long!

 And yet, while summer is still high and hot, I've already started napa cabbage seedlings under a grow light, carrot seeds in a sprouting box, and a porch tomato to sit in a pot and maybe give us some late season tomatoes. Tomorrow, I'll start some Swiss chard. Radishes, turnips, and beets will have to wait until mid-September for direct seeding in the garden.

Gotta love a good garden year!