September 26, 2020

 I'm calling it end of the season.  I gave up the beginning of the month since I was tired of processing garden sass.  All we have left is peppers, carrots, potatoes, carrots and squash.  We've eaten our two good spaghetti squash. I've started cooking, pureeing and freezing butternut squash. 

This is the first time we had a carrot bloom.  Jim pulled up, rather dug up, the culprit and we ate it for lunch.  This carrot is actually two entwined.  We don't thin our carrots, we just let them take their chance and we get some pretty strange configurations.  The really big carrots are very woody, and aren't as nice when cooked. 

Our okra thrived this hot dry year.  They were watered and grew taller than we've ever had okra grow before. Even Jim can't reach the top to harvest.  We have more than enough so we are letting them grow, they still are blooming, way up there 9ft. 9in. from the ground.  

September 4, 2020

The summer is winding down with cooler nights and a few cooler days mixed in with some very hot and windy ones.  I finally have enough tomatoes to can.  I've been putting some small amounts in the freezer right along.  I made a batch of tomato soup last week, some more pickles, and 6 qts of tomato juice.  This has been a strange year for some plants. Our tomatoes were late getting started and had black spots on them, they are better now, more fruit and fewer spots.  The okra is taller than it has ever been, over 6 ft. tall.  The cucumbers have been as prolific as ever, but I haven't been too enthused, I still have pickles leftover from last year.  

I pulled up the bean plants a week ago.  They've done well enough, though, thankfully not as well as usual.  We don't eat tons of green beans around here. 

The weeds have gotten away from us, to the point of letting most of them just go.  Jim has been cutting them off and feeding them to the cows in our pasture that belong to a friend.  The pasture is pretty dry, so they relish the tender parts of the leaves.  We could use some rain. 

Jim has started to harvest potatoes.  They seem to have something wrong with them, some are rotten where they met the stem.  

Water Hyacinth--August 8th.

Bumble Bee at the Farm 

Very Tall Okra 

Front door zinnas