Gardening: More than Food

I love summertime gardening. The long sunny days ensure a bumper crop of tomatoes, snap peas, onions, cucumbers, zucchini... But here in Santa Barbara, we get May Gray and June Gloom, too. Those days without sun may feel like we've been robbed of a summer day. (Mark Twain is credited with quipping. "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." I get the feeling.)