Tom Tom Club

Summer has been an epic disappointment this year in Oakland. Very few warm days. While the East Coast baked in record heat, we watched our tomatoes struggle for the cruelly rationed sunlight. Our Italian squash produced nothing. Nada. We had two small meals out of the pole beans. And the tomatoes....one of the plants has set no fruit and the other two are *just* starting to have some candy to eat.

Suffice it to say, this has not been the summer of eatin' at the Oaktown Farm. Non edibles are doing fairly well: mexican sage, snapdragons. And I do have some carrot seeds that are sprouting in the back bed under the wisteria. Other than that, it's just us chickens. With the baby close on our heels, there won't be a lot more planting this year, 2010. But I have a hunch there will be a lot of volunteer seeds in the spring. We shall see.