What to grow

It’s July. The garden is a mess of bolted lettuce, leggy basil, and three zucchini plants quietly plotting world domination in the corner. You’re hot. The soil is cracked and sun-bleached at the edges. And somewhere in the back of your mind is the very reasonable question:  Is it too late to plant anything? It…

There’s a moment in late May or early June when you step into a garden center and something shifts. The seed display shrinks. The tomato transplants move to the front. Someone next to you is loading pepper plants into their cart with the quiet confidence of a person who has done this before, and you’re…