It is. I promise! I may be slacking lately, but it's not on purpose. The sickies are still hanging around my house. Hopefully a bucket of Lysol and another week will set things right again.
Meanwhile, the garden has taken a real beating. I pulled out all the bush green beans, and the Holstein beans, the zucchini and the cucumbers. It's looking a little barren in one of the new raised beds. I'll need to get around to replanting it this week. I'm thinking about covering it with some netting and trying for another batch of cucumbers there and maybe some determinate salad tomatoes. Things that will stay low enough under the cover and behave. LOL.
Meanwhile my corn fell in the last massive wind/rain storm we had and it was really bad timing. The tassels and silks are already out and some of the stalks broke - at least half. Bad news for the remainder of the corn that still need pollinating. I guess I'm just not meant to have a decent crop of corn. But, I'll try again in the fall like always. I'll leave the stalks where they are because the lone cantaloupe is still developing in the stalks and I'm not losing it! The netting is almost 1/2 developed and I can't WAIT to taste that baby!
What I did harvest is a pound of the Holstein beans (dry), 7 huge cucumbers. The last for a long while. :-(
The last zucchini on the plant. A monster no doubt. It was good and will be missed. I couldn't believe that the plant had shot out several new plants from the underside. I had never grown this variety before and will be trying to look through my seeds to see which one it is because even after it was completely attacked by bugs it just kept on going. The plant this baseball bat came off of had split in half from a cucumber worm burrowing and was still trying to produce. Unfortunately the gnats that the frass was attracting coupled with the fact that I was only getting 1 fruit a week now? Eh- not worth keeping in the garden. I don't need a bug attractant.
I also got another good couple of piles of tomatoes, a butternut (The only one! This plant is gone now, too)
And my girls constant working to keep me in eggs. Bless there little souls. Love my girls.
The garden is no longer being very productive. There are a few tomatoes left and of course the sweet potatoes as I need them for meals. The okra are tiny yet, but growing. They should be producing by July 15th. When we get back from our next trip to Alabama in July I'll be starting my Fall tomatoes and getting ready for the fall garden. I can't wait. Something to look forward to while the garden is going into stasis!
Linking in to Daphne's Dandelions. Make sure you check out her place to see all the great things being harvested all over the world!
See you soon!
Barbie~
Nice harvest, regardless. Hope everyone gets over the bug soon. It has to be disappointing to lose a whole crop like the corn after all the work you put in and garden space allotted. At least you get a second season, not so much up north.
ReplyDeleteThanks. YUes I hope we are all well soon- and losing the corn is a disappointment when it's so expensive suddenly. I am definitely fortunate to get a second try!
DeleteLooks good. Those terrible bugs, aren't they just a pain! I was hoping to get a head start before the bugs this year and started a lot of stuff super early inside! So far so good!
ReplyDeleteLove your eggs! You have some good girls there!
TY! Yes, Love my hens they are good to me.
DeleteHope the sickies leave your house soon.
ReplyDeleteSorry about your corns, glad you are going to try again, us gardeners do not give up easily. Wonderful that you are able to plant 2 crops.
:-) It's is wonderful. I wish everyone had 2 chances, but then again a long season is nice, too.
DeleteA great harvest week despite things slowing down. We are just starting to get things up and growing here in Utah so it will be a few weeks before we harvest much.
ReplyDeleteIt will be nice to watch you harvest when I will be starting over though! :-)
DeleteOh man...sorry about your corn! We don't grow much of it, but it sure is a treat at the end of a long summer! The rest of your harvests are amazing, though and must make up for it a bit! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteTY. Yes, it feels good to brig so much for the table. I do love good corn though. *sigh* Ah well - Farmers Market here I come!
DeleteIt is sizzling hot here too. Due to the drought and we were travelling the corn got dried up just as the tassle and the females in mating time. Opposite of yours the heat damaged the corns. Maybe you can try a smaller variety? We tried baby blue Jade Corn which is the size of babycorn. I am also hoping for a tiny butternut underneath the corns. Big beautiful hsize harvest :).
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about it, but I'll finish up whatever seed I've got before switching. Maybe something that stays under the fenceline for wind protection. We get some really wicked summer storms here.
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