The garden hasn't gotten all of the attention that it needs the last couple of weeks, but it continues to grow - especially the weeds. It seems like I pull a 5 gallon bucket full of weeds and three times as many grow, if only the veggies grew so well! This year has been a battle with the weather and pests. Zip counted 27 blue jays in the blueberries this morning - it's no wonder that we've only gotten about 5 quarts this year! This past week we've harvested more than enough zucchini and summer squash (I wish there was some way to preserve the squash). We're also getting lots of fresh cucumbers to eat, but not enough to pickle or relish :( I'm still picking green beans, we picked about 19 lbs. this week - I've canned 65 pints of beans this year. Of course we're still digging potatoes and I've pulled some of the onions. The texas sweet onions are huge delicious things!
We've pulled the first planting of peas, but the second, smaller planting is just getting started at the honey house. I picked 9 oz. (shelled wt.) of those yesterday. I've lost track of the amount of broccoli that we've gotten so far.
Our tomatoes aren't looking too good right now. I think that we may have the tomato blight - in the last three days we've started to develop a lot of yellow leaves. There's lots of tomatoes on the vines, so if I have to I'll pick them green and let them ripen on the back porch.
The flowers are blooming nicely in the garden. We have glads, sunflowers, zinnias, cosmos and dahlias.
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