Mid Summer Planting

Last year I got a copy of Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long which is an excellent book, but I got it too late in the year to actually do anything with it.

This year, the very rainy June knocked out a few plants with root rot and the peas and the lettuce, both of which are early season varieties, are drying up and going to seed leaving me with a decent sized empty space.

Seeds of Change had some good suggestions on their web site for late season planting and I dug out my seed box looking for varieties that I had on hand that would be ready in 60 days or so. I planted pole beans, swiss chard, and some summer squash and all have sprouted very quickly. I also transplanted some Ramapo tomatoes which had not been doing too well in pots on the patio and they have almost doubled in size in just one week.

The Future of Food

The Future of Food is a documentary about genetically modified food and the moral, ethical, and health issues associated with it. It has a definite slant against, but unlike a lot of documentaries which try to terrify you; this one leans more towards the perspective of this is a relatively new technology, maybe it should be studied a little bit better before it is too late. It is analogous to an intelligent dinner guest offering a point of view rather than a protestor screaming at you with a placard and is worth the watch.