Harvest

60°f/15.5°C,overcast but expected to clear. Heavy rainshowers last evening, again.

A friend is coming to visit tomorrow, so today I will be busy tidying up the house, which has been neglected with all the garden work demanding my time. I was in the garden a bit yesterday, even though it was a bit muddy. Things had to be done: the broccoli needed to be cut, 

peas picked, 

celery and tomatillos planted, weeds pulled, tomatoes staked, raspberries picked, etc. 

I ended up with 6 nice bags of broccoli for the freezer. The peas will go in stir fry tonight. Larry has been picking raspberries every day and adding them to these bags. This is the best our patch has done in years, since I have been giving it more attention.

We haven't nearly finished staking those tomatoes yet. I am trying a method new to me called "Florida weave". Basically you set posts intermittently and weave support string in and out between the tomatoes, like weaving a basket. It's the method used by many commercial growers, although I bet they have a machine that does it.

The garden is really growing now, with all the rain. And so are the weeds. I need to get more mulch down, maybe later this week. For now it's hoe and pull.

I finished up this table yesterday too. It is one I painted to use myself several years ago. It used to be my mother's bedside table, and I have held on to it for 20 years, but now I no longer need it, so it will finally go to a booth.

I stenciled the top because there is a place on it that Larry could not get to look right. Stencilling can mask a multitude of ills! The place still shows but doesn't look as bad. Usually he can do a good job on such things, but this one defeated him. I guess Mom had a plant on it that caused the problem.

Time to get to work! 

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