Good morning Gardeners, and Happy Harvest!
Although most of you think of harvest season happening in the fall, out here on the High Plains, the beginning of summer means the beginning of the winter wheat harvest. I will be out hauling wheat to the co-op for a friend this afternoon, if the weather holds out. His wife, who normally drives the truck, has a broken leg, and so I volunteered to help. It’s all hands on deck when the harvest starts around here, plus I’ll get a great dinner as a reward!
Wheat is planted in the fall and grows over the winter and early spring, and then harvested in the beginning of summer. Fun fact- it takes a combine 9 seconds to harvest enough wheat to make 70 loaves of bread!
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
-Hal Borland
The beginning of summer in my garden means the hollyhocks are blooming and they’re putting on quite a show this year! My hollyhocks are all self-seeding and I have them in almost all my gardens around the yard now. The bees and other pollinators do all the crossbreeding for me, so I never know from year to year what they will look like.
Here are two double pinks that grew up in two separate gardens this year, and these are definitely my winners!
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I believe this next one is the mother (or daddy?) of the two above!
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For simple elegance, nothing beats the pale yellows and whites, and the barely pink:
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So that’s what’s going on in my summer garden for now (everything seems a little slow to get started this year!), what’s going on with yours?
