Good morning, gardeners. As some of you probably know, blue jersey dad and I spent about two and a half months in the field this summer, doing archaeological work in Hawai'i and then in the Middle East. This was not good for our garden. We had three days between the time we arrived home from Hawai'i and the time we had to leave for Ukraine. It gave us just about enough time to do our laundry, mow the grass in the front of the house, collect our Turkish research visas, repack, and get back to JFK.
When we finally arrived home in late July, the place was overrun with weeds. Here is a picture of me weeding:
Some of our roses were fine,
but the vegetable garden was a disaster. The only plants that survived were a tomato, an eggplant, some herbs, and a couple of squash plants (nothing can kill those). We decided to cut our losses and plant some fall crops--lettuce, greens, and arugula.
Since I have very few good pictures from my garden, I thought that I would post some pictures of the lovely Baha'i gardens in Haifa, Israel. We were fortunate to tour the gardens when we were in Israel for the ASWA (Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas) in late June.
Here you can see some views of the gardens:
It is one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited. If you are even in Israel, it should be near the top of your list. It is also designed to minimize the use of scarce water resources.
So what is happening in your gardens this week? I am planting fall crops.