by Janet Lane
Despite pouring rain and loud thunderstorms at 7:30, Carla was in the garden by 8:00 and by 8:30 all of us had straggled in to harvest the abundance. Once all was picked, the peas sorted, and greens washed, by 9:00 some 24 pounds of produce were delivered to the food pantry (peas, beets, lettuce, cauliflower, herbs — I can’t remember what else). Meanwhile, tomatoes were weeded and tucked in with newspaper and hay to deter new weeds.
Bunnies attacked the broccoli in the smaller garden, and continued to brazenly munch while we were there, slipping through the wire fencing with ease. We put up new chicken wire fencing to try to deter the cute little hungry buggers.
The sun shone, the chickens clucked and all was right with the garden.