August 18, 2017

I'm not doing a very good job of chronicling the garden for this year.

We worked really hard on the place before Lynette's wedding and it has never looked so good.  Jim watered some of our weedier 'back yard', that has never been 'lawn' and mowed it.  The garden has never been so weed free (until after the wedding).

The flower gardens which were under my care were kept weeding and starting the first of July we covered them with a thick mulch of dark brown wood chips (two large pickup loads) with some Preen involved.

Our corn is all in the freezer and our tummies, and Jim has mowed the stalks down. Lorene and Aaron came again to help

The cucumbers are going gangbusters and I don't need anymore pickles, I have too many leftover from last year. 

The summer squash is nearly done; the plants are all dying. 

I can't get too much enthused about any more garden.  

I'm okay with more beans and we are eating okra.

I've pulled up half of the cucumbers, I think I need to pull up some more. 

One big day's picking.

Our first canteloupe.  Jim said it didn't taste as good as store bought. Who knows, it could be soil, temperature, water, seed, that makes the difference.

This is one of Lynette's wedding gifts.  We got to enjoy the flowers while they were gallivanting in Maine.  I LOVE this vase.  I would like to have one this shape. 

August 1, 2017

Because of the wedding, I haven't been posting what has been going on around here.  We've been too busy.  Jim has watered all over the place except the pasture, done extra mowing, and extra weeding and the place is beautiful.  I've worked hard in the flower garden and put on extra thick mulch.  They are gorgeous.  We planted our garden late, but I've put a couple gallons of beans in the freezer, made 20 quarts of pickles, 5 of which are dills, the rest Caddie pickles. We have now, in two days, put 81 quarts of corn in the freezer, half of which is going to Lorene's family.  We have one more batch to do.  We've rather let the squash go to baseball bat size or more like heavy club size, but there is only so much one can do in a wedding summer!

Corn, 39 dozen ears in two days.