It was warm and humid in Central Missouri over the holiday weekend. Between the dry weather, lawn mowing, garden cleanup, and neighbor Dave mowing hay in my front pasture yesterday my allergies have been giving me fits.
Saturday we picked the last of pumpkins and mowed the vines, tore down the cucumber fence, pulled the posts and weed mat, and mowed down the Roma tomatoes. The slicing tomatoes are still going strong making ugly tomatoes.
We picked 15 gallons of green beans on Sunday. Cleaned three gallons to keep and gave the rest away. Picked the first Sugar Baby watermelon yesterday. It was perfect. Okra is going crazy. Might make some pickles from that later this week. Picked about five gallons of peppers yesterday. Gave most of those away.
And now that September has come it’s time to start building my pile of stovewood for the winter. There’s just no rest for the weary.
My one hope for a melon of any kind bit the dust today. It was a midget cantaloupe. Vine died and it was only a little bigger than a ping pong ball.
Next year, I’ll be planting a couple of pots of these and cukes in a pot and growing vertically. That seemed to work for the cukes this year. The same bugs hit them both in late August, so I’m hoping that they don’t come out in the spring and early summer.