My Favorite Things About Summer

Strawberries. Fresh. From my berry patch! Throw in a handful of blueberries and mulberries too. Heaven. Figs. I look forward to these all year! Tomatoes. Basil on tomatoes! (Along with a dash of olive oil and sea salt.) The scent of tomato leaves, which always makes me think summer. Watching this watermelon grow from a…

Linda Ly

Written by Linda Ly

Strawberries

Strawberries. Fresh. From my berry patch!

Throw in a handful of blueberries and mulberries too. Heaven.

Strawberries, blueberries and mulberries

Figs. I look forward to these all year!

Figs

Tomatoes.

Tomatoes

Basil on tomatoes! (Along with a dash of olive oil and sea salt.)

Basil on tomatoes

The scent of tomato leaves, which always makes me think summer.

Tomato leaves

Watching this watermelon grow from a wee thing into a mammoth melon.

Watermelon

Watermelon

Watermelon

Watermelon

My chickens pumping out eggs like there’s no tomorrow.

Eggs

Daylight at 8 pm. And still gardening when it’s supposed to be dinnertime… perhaps my most favorite thing of all and what I’ll miss over the coming weeks.

What are your favorite things about summer?

Linda Ly

I'm a plant lover, passionate road-tripper, and cookbook author whose expert advice and bestselling books have been featured in Time, Outside, HGTV, and Food & Wine. The National Parks Cookbook is my latest book. Garden Betty is where I write about modern homesteading, farm-to-table cooking, and outdoor adventuring—all that encompass a life well-lived outdoors. After all, the secret to a good life is... Read more »

19 Comments

  2. I love my garden too but living in Texas means it burns up in August. I also love all the flowers. The thing I love most about summer is being able to cycle for hours without being cold. 🙂 I ride year round – 35* + and when it is under 60* I am COLD!!

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  3. So happy to hear I’m not the only one who loved the scent from a tomato leaf. And I’ll miss the tan lines on my feet from padding around the garden in flip-flops…

    Thanks for a fun blog,

    Caroline

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