Here’s the dirt from the garden this week: Most plants are 1/3 of their normal size. In their smaller stature they are producing close to 1/3 less produce. Sounds like a disaster of biblical proportion.

Together that is 2/3 less than we have been getting in past years. Some leaves are terribly disfigured, probably from herbicide drops.

We also have some fusing in the greenhouses which could be radiation from Japan.

Due to high temps and low humidity flowers are dehydrating on the plant, vine or bush. That means if they are pollinated they dry almost instantaneously, die, producing no fruit.

Last week we did not net anything from the garden except seeing nice flowers. Varmints are taking a seista for a time until fall preps begin in earnest.

It looks like the soil microrganisms are being killed off resulting in plants yellowing from the base upward. Convenient because major chemical companies are going to enter replacing microorganisms into the soil. A value-added revenue maker. Kill the organisms and have people have to pay to get them back, and it is expensive. Watch out because these are called biopesticides

New growth in trees seems to be dying. Both deciduous and evergreen.

Pollinators are in short supply. Still have bumblebees and butterflies (God bless them) but no honey bees.

The good news is that with laborious watering moisture the soil is uptaking water overcoming the hydrophobic tendencies.

Photographic evidence coming soon.

From the trenches,
Celeste