Coming in the Garden

The winter and summer gardens intersect. Some crops look quite bedraggled at the end of their run. But there is hope as new vegetables and fruit show promise of coming harvests. Like the apricots in the thumbnail.

‘Dorsett Golden’ apples, the first of two crops this year.

Red-veined sorrel, a new kind of sorrel for me.

‘Pomegranate Crunch’ lettuce, growing in the enlarging shade of tomato plants.

‘Cimarron’ romaine lettuce tucked around dill in a corner of a raised bed. There’s the promise of some shade as the dill grows.

Two more seed-grown summer lettuces, ‘Jericho’ and Dark Lollo Rossa, benefiting from the light shade. They’re planted behind the trellis where the ‘Honeynut’ butternut squash will climb,

I’m hopeful that we have a bountiful crop of marionberries.

And ‘Honeynut’ butternut squash, cucumbers, pole beans and peppers await their trellis or place in the summer garden.