>Gardening 2011 — June update

>I’m a lousy gardener. Lousy and lazy. Gardens need attention and I’m just not that into it!

I’m not sure any of that’s true, but it is a big job, especially when you have a big garden, as I do. (This is probably the root of the problem.) Anyway, I’ve got some very nice looking plats: corn, eggplant, peppers, herbs, pumpkin, squash, acorn squash, zucchini, cucumber, okra, beans, crook-neck squash, melons, sunflowers, and, maybe, broccoli (maybe because they’re still so small that it’s hard to tell what they are.) And I’ve got lots of weeds. And now I’ve got some stink bugs (discovered today when I was doing battle with the weeds). I’ve been expecting them, but I don’t know what to do about them. Hope they’ll go away? Yeah, that sounds like a good strategy.

Pictures:

cucumber

Japanese eggplant

green pepper

red okra

big beefy

sunflower

zucchini

corn

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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