Shrivel, Burn, Wack, Wack

So my garden, well, she's taken a beating this summer, just like yours I'm guessing. The high temps and little rain have badly bruised her, even though I'm trying desperately to keep her well. After being away for one week's vacation in July, the hottest week this year in Boston, my garden has been fighting to make a come-back. I returned that week to burned leaves, as if a match were taken to them. And to dahlias just simply gone, totally disappeared, there were no signs a plant was even there to begin with, even the tubers, if you can believe that! 
  
Then my neighbor's idiot landscaper/hacker decapitated my beautiful morning glory plants that I started from seed in March—what took me five months to grow took him a second to obliterate. I even got them to grow in a part of the yard where nothing grows (and I'm now beginning to understand why that is). Really, what is it about guys and their weedwackers?! I put up labels so he'd know where not to cut and asked him to pull the weeds around the base of these plants. The funny part (if there is one) is that right next to the ten morning glories he butchered, there were weeds left standing. 
  
Sadly, no pears this year but my raspberries and strawberries were the tastiest ever. I've got tomatoes, squash, and fennel growing strong as I type this. My cukes are bitter. My eggplant's flowers are disappearing overnight. And I've got some random, mystery plant producing fruit I can't identify. My favorite tomato this year? The Garden Peach. Delicious, and pretty—the tomatoes actually resemble peaches. Oh and my carrots didn't take, not sure why but I just sowed lettuce and arugula in their space for fall.   


VEGETABLE GARDEN spring/mid-summer/beginning-august: