Is it Friday again - already?
I’m still wading through tomatoes - plan on freezing some for soups and chili this winter and making salsa, of course! The ‘Juliet’ tomatoes have been used for drying. They’re a small Roma-type tomato. Highly recommended!
I’m so sick of cucumbers I could barf. Two plants are PLENTY for us, though I planted four. I need to just knock it off!
I haven’t been down to the other garden this week; it’s been rainy and that slope is slippery for the 4-wheeler, but thanks to said rain, I’m not worried. Watermelon, cantaloupe, butternut and spaghetti squash down there. I’m sure they’re fine, though Beau tells me the raccoons got ALL of the Sweet Corn. Our fault - we didn’t put up an electric fence, or put a dog and a house down there this season.
Dumb, Dumb, Dumb!
I have peas started and lettuces and spinach and beets to go in next week for Fall crops; the Weatherman assures me we will FINALLY cool off. This has been one hot and humid and rainy growing season. Good for veggies and weeds; not so much fun for gardeners!
Still have plenty of basil for more pesto and I’m also in the process of cleaning out the big freezer as Beau is determined to have bear and elk and wild boar for us this fall into winter. We’re getting a second chest freezer from a friend! Wheeee!
I’m pretty sure we’ll make it through Winter. ;)
The weeks are flying by too fast. I may need to take a couple of weeks off and just go camp out somewhere so that no one can find me to do stuff for them.
We did the same dumb thing. Coons got all the corn. First time though, because it usually is planted closer to the house, maybe.
I do have some deck corn that I planted later, which may yet yield something, though I probably need to side dress it with something to add some fertility to the soil.
I know the first year we gardened, I canned 48 pints of pickle relish and 36 pints of various kinds of pickles. Got so sick of them. I only planted one plant this year, and got 12 pints of kosher dills. The plant was doing great, but the wilt has hit, so the vines won’t last long.