✨August in the garden✨ I’ve been enjoying just being in the garden this summer, not taking and sharing pictures all the time. And this strange, unusually cold summer has meant that the garden has been super slow, even for here (6000 feet elevation in the Sierra, in the shade of big jeffrey pines). Of course, strange weather years are our new normal with climate change very much upon us, so gardening has become even more an act of going with the flow, and rolling with whatever nature brings. But here’s where things are as of today in my jumble of a garden. Everything is intermixed, both because that is healthier for the garden and because I tend to just stick things wherever there is a little patch of soil available. And everything is still damp from the inch of rain we got from the artist formerly known as Hurricane Hilary. As usual, the kale is the biggest and happiest thing in the garden, and that makes Pico, the kale eater, the happiest little dog. If you are curious what anything is, feel free to ask in the comments! 💜 [images: lots of messy but happy plants. At the end, me holding a kale bunch so large that I have to tilt it down to get the whole thing in the picture, and Pico, a six lb. black mostly-Chihuahua, grabbing a nibble from the kale bouquet.]
