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
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