Work early! The past 2 Saturdays the garden had emptied by the time I arrived at my "early" of 10:45, so I got there at 9:15 this morning. Working today were about 15 neighbors--children, men and women from ages "seedling" to "going-to-seed." I think they'd worked an hour or more already.
Since grade school my grand plans to wake up early in the summer have always fizzled into sleeping until hot mid-morning (never had AC). As a stay-at-home mom I've discovered that I get the most done if I'm ready for the day by 8am. But oh how I love sleep, especially when I've been up with a baby or sick child. When I do get to my garden earlier, we're both better cared for.
Today, dill seeds were collected for next year's planting. They harvested spaghetti squash, pattypan squash, striped green zucchini, yellow zucchini, cucumbers, kohlrabi, broccoli, carrots, rainbow chard, etc. My 6-year old helped the tasseled corn spread their pollen. He also weeded the celery and tomatoes and harvested chard. We let a lady bug crawl on our fingers too.
I met Meg, who has a facebook page for the Garden (I can't figure out how to link them). She snapped a picture of me and Collin--he's bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I'm bleary-eyed and bed-rumpled. I didn't bring a camera because I lost mine last week, so I rented my 8-year old son's camera last time for 35 cents. I'd have borrowed it again, but he left at 7:45 for Cub Scout Day Camp, and I wasn't awake that early to ask him. Alas, my early bird woke up too many times to a baby "birdie" last night.
PS-I found "Rightie"-she'd never left my work bench.
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