Today is the first of August, know as Lughnasadh in Ireland, it begins the celebration of the harvest season.
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Today is the last daytime of July and when you learn this it will be August , since I am place this tardily in the evening . We had a long , really hot July and it look like August might be the same . Although , to many of us gardener , it seems to be about midsummer , August 1 in some parts of the world , celebrates this day as the starting time of the harvest time of year .
Known asLughnasadhin Ireland , Calan Awstin Wales , andLammasin Great Britain , this first daylight of August commemorate the first harvests of grain and is sometimes referred to as the “ celebration of bread ” . This ancient holiday stand for the passage of the summertime growing time of year into the fall harvest . People celebrate the beginning of this season with feasting , saltation and balefire , pay thanks for a openhanded harvest , and enough intellectual nourishment to get them through the winter calendar month to get along . Bread is made with this yr ’s harvest .
Although we have been harvest food for thought from the garden since spring , the literal teemingness is about to begin and we will be preserving in earnest this month and next . So on this sidereal day I stop and give thanks for our horticulture efforts and their yield and what is yet to get . Even though we ’ve dealt with the cervid and the Marmota monax , and then the flea beetles and bread moths , and now the stink bugs are climbing around on the love apple , peppers and eggplants — would you stop gardening ? Not I.
Even though we have not had enough rain and the weed jeopardize to take over , I still gossip the garden day by day and happily harvest tomato , chilli , eggplants , crush , beans , onions , and fragrant herb of all flavors . The joyous flight of the butterfly induce me to intermit everyday ; they go about their garden chore of cross-pollinate — gaily dancing over the genus Koellia , Echinacea and anise Hyssopus officinalis . I stoop over to inspect those cantaloupe vine and winter squelch hiding under the liberal foliage and see the drone of drunken bee in the squash blossoms . The flowsy cherry-red psyche of the bee balm tremble and I make out that the hummingbird is gathering nectar . I patiently wait to dig the spud , which will be soon . The warmth , the critter , the bug , the weed — we all inhabit our niggling green - growing universe together — and I celebrate the joyfulness as well as the challenges of gardening . This week with the first one-fourth lunar month , I will sow some more annual herb and stalwart green . And the cycle of the seasons keeps on …
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Summer heights in the August garden. Yes the make-shift gypsy-look deer fence has worked pretty well–they really only chomped the edamame plants. Click on other pix to enlarge and read captions.Photo/Illustration: Susan Belsinger
