Busy, BUSY day in the garden!
Picked:
Zukes
Cukes
Tomatoes
Peppers
Misc. Herbs
The LAST of the Broccoli
Green Beans (Pole and Bush, Green, Yellow, Purple)
First batch of Fridge Pickles tomorrow...
Cleaned out two beds to make way for fall planting. The soil in those beds SUCKS, so I’ll be adding compost and peat and composted manure. Mid-August plantings will be:
Beets, Carrots, Lettuces, Spinach and Radishes.
Today was the FIRST day in a long string of days when you could even STAND to be outside for more than a few minutes at a time! It’s been an annoyingly HOT & HUMID growing season, but we’ve had more than enough rain, so it’s not ALL bad. The lawn is growing like crazy, which is annoying as hell, but when I close on my house sale on 8/12 I will be buying myself a few ‘luxuries’ as I head forward:
A really, REALLY good riding mower and little Mantis-type tiller so I can easily till and add amendments to the raised beds. I already bought myself a new coffee table. How lucky am I that a coffee table was the ONLY thing lacking in my life? LOL!
On a more personal note, Beau RETIRED yesterday - so he’s already off to our cabin, ‘Up Nort’ to chase around da bears (can’t shoot ‘em until September, but he’s training dogs AND clients this upcoming month) and we just had a batch of new pedigreed puppies; Treeing Walker Coon Hounds, and they are just more adorable than you can imagine! Seven. Two males and five females. All are perfectly PERFECT...which doesn’t always happen!
Life Is Good! :)
Sounds good to me! I’ve been busy trying to catch up on the canning, but as soon as I think I am, Hubby takes a notion to harvest something else.