California Gardening: What's happening in your mid summer garden? , 1 by PedricksCorner

PedricksCorner wrote:
I always tell people I don't need to waste my money on a membership in an excercise/fitness center, I have a garden!!! Deadheading, pulling weeds, raking, digging, hauling, you know what I mean!
And I can really "get busy" with a shovel! When I get frustrated or worried, I just grab one of my shovels and get to work!
Then I am too tired and sore to be frustrated or worried, ha, ha ;-)
Here is are couple of my apple bins. One is full of celery and parsley going to seed for future crops. The other is full of potatoes with jerusalem artichokes and romano beans behind it. Yes, such things as potatoes, celery, and onions are cheap. But why waste the extra $$ on the gas it takes to go get them when I can just walk out my back door and grab what I need? And you never see Romano string beans in the grocery store. They're my favorite. They're flat and they cook up rich, almost more like peas. Not like a regular string bean at all.
Todays task is teaching the new gopher control specialists not to play in the seed beds. Grrrrr, I love fresh basil and a new batch is just coming up.......