Last garden project of the season!

[Diamond_Dog]

Drying about half the parsley and putting the rest in the fridge for chopping and cooking.

[Walleye]

1. Beautiful crop!

[Diamond_Dog]

4. Thanks! Parsley always does well for us even when other herbs do not.

[NullTuples]

2. I so envy you, in the best possible way!

We're on the West Coast. Just close enough to the coast to get three weeks of cool overcast, interspersed with two weeks of blistering heat, over and over starting in June. Before that it's just not warm enough to get anything going past seedling stage. Few soft stem plants can thrive in it. I keep trying new plants in our garden but we're mostly relegated to cherry tomatoes, zucchini, kale and other herbs that can weather the quick, extreme shifts in weather that stick around long enough to affect plant growth, then abruptly get replaced with the opposite extreme.

That parsley looks beautiful & I'm sure it will greatly enhance so many meals!

[Diamond_Dog]

5. Thank you, NullTuples!

That weather you described does seem a bit of a challenge for growing veggies, but then it sounds like you do have luck with some yummy veggies too.

I have tried eggplant three years in a row and have decided to give up on it, it just doesn’t thrive here in NE Ohio.

With climate change affecting everything we grow, who knows what we’ll be eating in ten years!
Good luck with your efforts!

[NullTuples]

7. Thanks - I've bred tomatoes to grow better here but they tasted awful.

I've lived in a number of different (micro)climates and sometimes the challenge (fun?) is seeing what you can coax out of the conditions you have to work with. It all started when I ran a small retail & commercial nursery many years & careers ago.

Regarding climate change: I'm in the Wine Country of the SF Bay Area and this summer I've noticed an increasing number of exploratory wine grape plots supported by many helicopter flights a few tens of miles *north* of the traditional growing areas. Two more decades and Napa Valley may no longer even be a wine growing region (or more likely they'll keep the wineries & bottling there for the marketing but grow the grapes farther and farther north). That to me is a canary in a coal mine moment.

[Diamond_Dog]

8. You nailed it with "canary in the coal mine."

As a wine lover, it saddens me to think of possibly losing our great California wine industry.

Thanks for your inside, yet sobering view. I wish there was more political will to fight climate change in this country.

[MontanaMama]

3. Gorgeous.

I just bought a little Italian parsley plant to try and winter over in a south facing window. My outdoor plant bolted in August and there was no retrieving it. Trying to hold on to a little bit of summer before the snow flies.

[Diamond_Dog]

6. Thanks, MM!

It’s strange, but my lettuces will bolt in June but the parsley goes on forever here, as long as the frost doesn’t kill it.

Good luck with your indoor plant! I certainly hear you about how soon the snow is gonna fly.