After rainfall for the month of June is tallied in double digits, after violent winds have shaken the fruit trees and pushed over the valerian and lupine, the carrot and dill seeds have washed away in multiple plantings; what’s doing well in the garden now that we’re into July?
Everything in the hoop house is just fine. Juliet, Purple Melissa and currant tomatoes are happy and blossoming while their outdoor cousins are turning yellow around the edges. Sacred basil, anise hyssop and the second crop of lettuces are still in pots, waiting for the day when I can dodge showers long enough to plant them out.
And the other rising star is the stinkhorn, Mutinus elegans. They come up wherever they please, in no particular soil or location around the garden, they spread their spore in a smelly slime that attracts flies. One of the few fungus I’ve researched that, while not poisonous, is nowhere considered edible.
