What I did on my summer vacation....

It won't surprise people who know us that we went to Northampton for our summer vacation. We only go every year! What a beautiful place- we made use of the excellent railtrail bike path, explored the gorgeous Smith campus, and ate very, very well at places like the Northampton Brewery and Jakes (no frills dining at its best!!) We spent 4 days and 3 nights with fantastically perfect weather, and had a great time.


Here we are in Hadley, just off the bike path:






And, of course, we finished up the garden today! A nice way to spend the last day of my vacation. We put in the last of the flagstones, made a little stone border and filled in the beds with topsoil.




We decided that since we're really late in the season, we would just plant a wall of sugarsnap peas, in hopes that we will get a decent fall harvest. We'll see!




We used the old tomato cages to make a zigzag fence for the vines to grow on.

I think the wall of vines will look really neat, if they work this late. My fingers are crossed!