The sun was low on the Western horizon so the pictures looking towards the west are not the best.

I picked a five gallon bucket of pickling cucumbers yesterday. I gave them away due to the fact that I will not have time to bottle them until Friday.

The third picking of corn is ready. We were going to pick it this Friday, but we will try to get it done on Wednesday, before I have to go to work. No more signs of the raccoon.

The beans are still going strong. We picked three 5 gallon buckets worth on Aug 29th, and another buckets worth was picked on Sep 3rd. So far over 300 quarts of beans have been canned from the four, 75' double rows of bush beans. They will be picked again tomorrow and it looks as if it will be another two or three bucket picking.

We have cut and fed all of the corn stocks from the first planting to the goats. Most has gone to the meat goats that we have at a neighbours field with some going to our milk does. We have also been feeding them the old pea vines, and along with the chicken and the turkeys, they have been getting all of the large squash.

You can see the live trap for the raccoon in this photo. I have it baited with an egg. No sign of the raccoon for over a week.

In this photo the corn on the right is the forth planting, and the corn on the left is the third planting (the corn that we will pick on Wednesday). It is hard to tell, but the corn on the right is about 8 inches taller then the corn on the left. The forth planting has been watered with drip from the point that it was about 6" high. The third planting was watered by flood, down the furrows, until it was about 3' high. At that point I got around to installing the drip lines. All of the corn that we have picked has been near perfect. I have been more then happy with the results of the corn, and will water with drip from day one next year.

The winter squash is making its way into the corn and is loaded with squash. Many of the vines are dying back do to wilt. Not sure of the cause, but I suspect squash bugs. I over planted the summer squash thinking that some would die as a result of the squash bugs, but none of it has. The plants are thicker than I prefer, but I can live with it.

It is hard to tell in this photo but many of the pumpkins are completely orange now.

It looks as if we might get some watermelons after all. Several of them are big enough to eat. I am just waiting for the little pigtail type vine to die back indicating that the melon is ripe. The Sugar Baby watermelons are loaded and will be ripe long before the first frost.

Most of the pea vines have been pulled up to be fed to the goats.