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New England gardening this week

The Midsummer Harvest: A Lesson in Abundance and Patience The air this morning, hanging over the garden beds near Burlington, […]

The air this morning in the garden feels thick and sweet, smelling of sun-baked earth and overripe tomato skins. You

The air this morning in your New England garden is thick—a humid, sweet curtain woven from ripening tomatoes and damp

The Mid-Summer Harvest & The Art of Letting Go This morning, standing in the damp earth near the raised bed

The air this morning, even before the sun has fully crested the rooftops of Salem, carries that specific scent—a mix

The air today in your New England garden—whether you’re tending a plot near Portsmouth or elbow-deep in beds outside Brunswick—smells

The scent of sun-warmed tomato vines and damp earth hangs heavy in the air this week, a rich, humid perfume

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The air in the garden today smells like ripe tomato skin baking under the July sun—a deep, sweet scent mixed

The air today smells like hot dust mixed with overripe tomato skin—that deep, sweet scent that signals peak abundance and

nybbq / July 22, 2026

Oh, the smell of it—that thick, sweet perfume of tomato leaves baking in the July sun, mixed with the sharp,