The lettuces, grown from seed from Johnny's, are delicious today. All of them have a delicate taste, and the mesclun mix (the mixed green and red lettuces on the right side) was well designed. I planted extra red sails red-leaf lettuce this year (on the left side) because the marauding groundhog in my parents' yard has eaten theirs right to the ground again.
One of my favorite things to grow is garlic. I buy a head of garlic from the place where we go apple picking in the fall (Ochs' Orchard in Warwick, NY) to use as seed, because it is untreated and will germinate well. Each clove in that head gets planted in the fall, and by July, each clove has become a whole new head! When the seed heads (the swirly, smooth green things in the picture) become upright, they are ready to pick.
My grandpa's peonies were full of blooms this year, their second blooming season in our yard. Their smell is intoxicatingly beautiful and so alive. My dad even called the white ones prizewinners...
...like this one!
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