Garden Fairies Provide a Summer Report

Garden fairie here!

We are once again taking over the keyboard so that this blog doesn’t just wither up and fade away like… like… like a rose petal that has silently fallen to the ground and soon will be a part of the humus of the garden.

Wow, look what we just wrote right there. The imagery. The metaphor. So poetic.

Anyway, we decided to provide a summer update for the garden, which, we must say would be far worse if we were not here to manage things properly.

Properly.

That is our motto. “Do it properly or do it not at all,” as Granny ‘Gus’ McGarden likes to say to anyone who ventures back to the Vegetable Garden Cathedral to help her, and that includes Carol, of course.

Anyway, we are pleased for the most part with how things are going in the cathedral. There are loads of peppers, green beans, and even tomatoes. Though with the tomatoes, Granny says that raccoons are eating about half of them. She has encouraged Carol to pick them earlier to ripen on the kitchen counter, but Carol doesn’t always do as she’s told.

So Hortense and Honoria have decided to form a task force to look into the matter.

The matter being Carol’s behavior, not the raccoons.

We garden fairies can not just round up and shoo away the raccoons, in case you thought that was the answer. Raccoon roundups are not in our garden covenants, and therefore, we can do nothing about them.

It’s up to Carol!

In other summer garden news, some of the plants seems to have gotten confused by hearing the school bus rumble by in the past week, and thought summer was coming to an early end and started to bloom a bit early, in our estimation.

We are garden fairies. Summer is not coming to an early end!

So all those late summer flowers—we are looking at you, hardy begonia, and you, resurrection lilies, and you, mums—need to simmer down, relax, and enjoy high summer.

We are garden fairies, that is what we are doing! We are relaxing and enjoying summer.

And that is our summer report.

Oh, one more thing!

Seedy and Soddy are making plans for seed sowing some of the self-sowers, and Sweetpea MorningGlory and I are doing all we can to encourage Carol to save some seeds too, like for the Signet marigolds, (pictured above), which she grew from seeds she saved last year.

We are so proud of her for doing that! Even Ol’ Rainbow Tanglefly is impressed and he’s seen it all.

Anyway, if you have questions for us garden fairies, we’ll try to answer them in a future post or two. Maybe. No promises.

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Viola GreenPea MayDreams, Chief Scribe and Keeper of the Covenants at May Dreams Gardens.