midsummer garden

these days it's really all about the greens, the herbs (I'm putting chopped parsley and basil on just about everything), the berries (I've lost count of how many quarts of raspberries we've picked, but it has been enough to gobble them by the handful, make a few batches of jam, and get some in the freezer~ and now the blueberries and blackberries are starting to come in), and the flowers.  the flowers have shifted over from a predominantly purple and somewhat delicate larkspur-lavender-poppy-nigella mix to the full-on summer explosion of day lilies, rudbeckia, liatris, zinnia, calendula, coreopsis, sunflowers, bee balm, coneflower (etc, etc).  I'm beginning to save some seeds from the earlier-blooming flowers, and the cucumbers, beans, and squashes are coming on strong, the first summer squash picked a couple weeks ago and the first small basket of beans picked a few days ago.  

it's a nice time to be a gardener- it's one of those small lulls where most of the work has been done for the mean time (aside from the always needed weeding, of course, and a smattering of second plantings here and there), and you can sit back and watch and wait and nibble.