Adorable hubbie and I live in a little open pocket in the woods. A couple days ago a strong front passed through with high winds, which left 70 or 80 thousand people without power in the middle of the state. We didn't lose power, but a large limb from one of the wild cherries at the edge of our clearing came down on the garden. This morning we have been cleaning up the garden, and cutting up the cherry wood.
Adorable hubbie has cut the wood into firewood sized pieces. We'll load that in the tractor bucket and take it down to the wood shed to split it, later in the week. Cherry wood is not the greatest firewood, but it was easily acquired - we will burn it late next spring. Then he chipped a bunch of the little stuff to refurbish the walkway which we have woodchipped a few years ago - it is getting bare, so this is a good opportunity to fill it in.
The garden is is a fine state of disarray - this spring has been very busy after a hard winter, and tending the garden has repeatedly taken a back seat to a wide variety of other projects and emergencies. So, the emergency of the tree falling on the garden is not such a bad thing. It missed most of what I had managed to get planted, and knocked down a lot of weeds! It knocked down the deer netting in two places but didn't break any fenceposts.
We worked together to get the big sticks out of the garden. Then, while hubbie dealt with the small wood, I pulled more weeds, and located a few things that have survived this not so benign neglect. The two tomato plants I put in the week before it rained for a month, are both smaller than the monster plants I had two years ago, but do have a few tomatoes coming on. There is some lettuce that is trying to bolt, but other lettuce is pickable, and it is good time to put more seed down. The potato plants are also small but going strong. I found a few onions - a couple large ones, and many stunted ones that can be scallions. The cauliflower and brussel sprouts are chewed on, but growing. The pepper plants on the other hand, are all disappeared but this is the only thing that is a total loss.
On the other hand, the bee balm plant I put in last year is now 4 feet high, almost as wide and just starting to bloom crimson red blossoms! The lemon balm, Greek oregano, and horseradish are also going great guns, and the peas are covered with pods, so I will be picking those later today!
So we got a good three hours of work in this morning. Now, it is July 4th, so we are going to celebrate with a nice long nap in the cool dim house before we go back to cleaning up the garden later. I count my blessings.
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