Potato Salad with Tartar Sauce
Snapdragons in my garden Smoky skies have been the US East Coast's depressing reality this week, thanks to Canadian wildfires that are emblematic of increasingly hot, dry North American weather caused by climate change. Long before my corner of the world turned temporarily sepia yesterday, local gardeners (including me) have been agonizing about the lack of rain. Dry, dry, dry, dry, dry, dry... In my online gardening group, we crack jokes along these lines: "I just spent two hours drenching my plants, so it's definitely going to rain now", or "I'm leaving my patio cushions out tonight so that it will pour!" For the most part, we gardeners are people who are atuned to nature, and fully aware of the role of climate change in our gardening woes. A lot of the members of the online group both practice and preach eco-friendly landscaping with rain barrels, native plants, natural pest control methods, drip lines, composting, etc. But I wonder how many of them ...