[image error]Summer is winding down, and before it completely gives over to mushrooms and chestnuts I need to talk about our vegetables. I know this doesn't sound gripping, but bear with me.

When we planted last spring, we were all about enthusiasm, pest control and fertilizer. Then the first radishes started to swell up, two rows of twisted little red and white bullets sticking out of the soil, and we were ecstatic. Sebastian would pluck a few every night, whether they were ready or not. But what we...