Summer reading, beauty in the garden
It’s summer reading at the library and we’ve been swamped. My programs are all full with some of the waiting lists longer than the actual number that I can accept. We’ve been so busy and this summer has been a great success. We’ve blown all of the previous years’ records out of the water with registration and number of teen volunteers. In the first week, we had 100 more registrants in the first week than the total registrants last year.
The weather the last couple of weeks has been completely irritating. If it’s not torrential downpour and flooding, it’s hotter than should be legal with humidity through the roof and heat indexes at 100°F. With all of the rain we’ve had our garden is growing like gangbusters. We have pea plants that are at least four feet tall, blossoms on the cucumbers, the corn is about three feet tall and tomato plants that were two feet tall last weekend are suddenly nearly three feet tall. We couldn’t ask for better growing weather, but with all of the great growing weather comes weeds. It’s been so hot and we’ve had so much rain, we haven’t had time to get out and weed the garden.
Last weekend as I was trying to get a little weeding done, I noticed that we had some very ripe radishes, a couple of onions and several pea pods.
The flower gardens have also been doing well. Some of my favorites that have been blooming over the last couple weeks are the:
Coreopsis,
Lily,
Phlox,
and in our front yard garden, the Portulaca.
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