Spent Friday resting up from the trip then got down to business yesterday. Spent a couple hours cleaning up in the victory garden. Most of the okra had toppled over from the weight of unpicked seed pods, so I got after it with the loppers and hauled it off to the compost heap. The pepper plants are loaded like I've never seen and I have no idea what, if anything, I'm going to do with all those peppers. Probably chop them down and toss em on the compost with the okra.
I found a nest of eastern yellowjackets out there while I was cleaning up. One of the evil things nailed me on the back of my left hand when I disturbed the nest. Yellowjacket venom doesn't affect me as bad as red wasp venom, but it's bad enough. My hand is still quite swollen today. But of course I got my full measure of revenge. I went out there this morning with six foot of garden hose, a funnel, and a quart of gasoline. They were just waking up when I arrived with their nice petrocarbon breakefast. I stuck the end of the hose down entrance to their burrow and glub glub glub gave them a nice drink.
The Peaches-N-Cream sweet corn is coming along nicely. It's not in full tassle yet, but it won't be long. I did the last top-dressing with urea and watered it in. I've got my fingers crossed for good weather and a bumper crop.
