Plump, red ripe juicy;
my tomatoes have ripened.
Summer has arrived.
Tonight, my family will finally eat home grown tomatoes! We usually harvest our first tomato in early July; the unusually cold summer delayed things. But, I can report that today we are experiencing hot, humid weather.
In fact, it’s icky.
The sort of summer weather we are used to complaining about around here. It’s not really all that hot (83F), but the humidity is 74%; weather.com tells me it “feels like 90F”. The temperature is supposed to rise. . .
While outside gardening, I could hear the neighbor’s air conditioners running.
Lucky for me, I live in a house with super-dooper insulation. (We’ve added insulation to the attic of every house we’ve bought. ) We also have decent windows, trees shading the south side of the house– including the roof. We closed the windows, plan to grill dinner outdoors and anticipate not needing to run the a/c.
Best of all: I will eat my own tomatoes for dinner. Yum.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124967502810515267.html
Meanwhile…
http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html
🙁
Andrew
Andrew_KY… oh… my…
Can anyone estimate the climate footprint of that congressional travel to beautiful vacation spots?
Lucia,
I don’t know. (and happy I don’t)
This quote from the story tells you all you need to know:
“They also spoke with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (sound familiar?) scientists there who *hope* to use the South Pole’s frigid and hostile environment to test inflatable moon dwellings. “Some of the most important science in the world is being done down there,” Mr. Baird said.”
Huh?
Have they every heard of an invention called The Telephone or (gasp) Email? They could have shared the Moon Dwelling Experience via some colorful faxes without leaving the office, couldn’t they Lucia? 😉
Andrew
Andrew (Comment#17576)
I think they wanted a direct sensory experience. hmmm. Reminds me of a prior position somebody held
spring rain, summer sun,
makes pears so tasty and ripe
juice drips down my chin
(two out of 3 or our pear trees have pears this year that we’re fighting with the insects for the right to eat)
steven,
Prior? The question for thinking people is… what did have a sensory experience of? Speaking with hopeful scientists(again, the phone)? or did they imagine they were in a dwelling on the moon (they can do that anywhere)?
C’mon steven, really… why did they have to go there? Were there French Garden flowers to smell? 😉
Andrew
Ten years with no pears
I haven’t seen a blossom
so ridiculous
Green fruit, hanging low
Soon to ripen tangy red
Soon to B-L-T
Here in the UK,
we’ve had garden tom’s for weeks,
but no summer yet.
You need to weed that garden!
Jae–
It’s not very weedy. That’s a sweetpotato leaf leaning out from it’s pole, and black eyed susans behind the tomatoes. There was a stalk of crabgrass right there behind the tomato; it’s been pulled. Not a big deal in my mind.
The plants do fine this way, and I can have veggies and flowers.
OK, but I saw that crabgrass!
That nice-looking tomato made me sad, because it reminded me that a big hail destroyed 95% of mine (probably about 150 tomatoes). Damn global warming.
You forgot to mention the morning glory, jae. I have found that morning glories love tomatoe cages more than tomatoes do. My cages always grow bodaceous morning glories. If I am lucky, I may get a few tomatoes as well.
Not one single pear
Plant pears for your heirs, indeed
zippo, zilch, nada
Conical plant supports outdo
My old-school wood stakes, I think
as I lift up swollen branches.