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New England gardening this week

The Mid-Summer Abundance Check: Harvesting Resilience from Your New England Plot The air this morning, even before the sun crested […]

The air this morning, hanging heavy over the backyard garden near Cambridge, smells like a potent mix of sun-warmed earth

The air this morning in the garden—whether you’re working a small patch behind your home in Salem or tending rows

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

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

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,

nybbq / July 22, 2026

Midsummer Bounty: Tending the Soil for a Resilient Autumn The air in your garden today smells thick—a rich, humid blend