Aug 23

This was somewhat of a slow week. We did not can anything out of the mega garden, although Rachel canned some applesauce on Friday. We have little watermelons, but I do not think that there are enough growing days left before the first frost for them to ripen. We have cantaloupe that will probably make it.

The cucumbers are coming on strong. We will be bottling pickles starting next week up until frost in late September or early October if we are lucky.

The neighbors are going to harvest the second planting of corn this coming Saturday. I picked a dozen ears today for supper. It was young and very sweet. We are feeding the corn stalk from the first planting to the goats along with the jumbo summer squash.

The wind was blowing when I took these pictures as you can tell by looking at the corn.

The cucumbers have recovered well from the earlier mishap and are loaded with blossoms.