Where did our gardens go?

From the garden

Wow! What an August. After days and days of triple digits up to 110 degrees, gardeners are looking for some September relief. Garden yields this summer were disappointing. Fewer crops and those that did develop were smaller.

What was going on? There is a short answer and then a longer, biological answer. In today’s column are both. The short answer is—it’s the heat. The longer answer…