Last Calls

For me, gardening is a little like an alcoholics craving, and the season is similar to the corner bar's nightly cycle.  Spring is like happy hour, with all the seeds available and plantings going in every day.  Early summer is late evening in the garden, with full blast planting, weeding and harvest.  We have now reached the last call stage for many plantings.  I planted the last corn, squash, beans and crucifer seeds last week and as the season progresses, more and more last call plantings will be made.  Unlike the neighborhood bar, or maybe just like it, this gardener will push the last call as far into the future as possible, until Mother Nature throws me out sometime in November.