This summer has been fairly wet. I haven't had to water my garden very much, and everything down there is looking very lush and green. Despite all the rain and green-ness, very little of it is weeds this year...a fact of which I am quite proud. The amazing pumpkin plants are taking up close to 1/4 of the garden and there are 2 enormous pumpkins, and several smaller ones.
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| This guy is at least 18" high and 12" across ...and still growing! |
The second time that I planted flower seeds in the top tier of my strawberry bed, they came up. They are just starting to bloom, and look wonderful!
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| Zinnias and Cosmos |
I am harvesting so, so many veggies from the garden that our extra refrigerator has been full frequently and I feel quite overwhelmed some days just trying to keep up!
This week I froze green beans and rhubarb, made zucchini bread, and ate corn and cucumbers. Yesterday I picked a 2-gallon bucket of tomatoes (our first) so JP and I had tomato sandwiches for dinner last night, and I made and froze a pot of pasta sauce today. I also canned 3 pints of sliced jalapenos for JP's tacos today.
L brought home apples and baby carrots from the library last week. The Summer Reading Program is finished for the year, and these were left over from the lunches that they provided for the children. They were going to be thrown out, and having Mennonite blood coursing through her veins, L couldn't let that happen. So, I froze 6 pints of carrots and made 10 half pints of apple butter this week as well!
Tonight I am down to a small bag of green beans and about a dozen cucumbers in the refrigerator, a couple of tomatoes, and about 5 or six yellow or zucchini squashes. Sigh. There is more to do!
It is raining again tonight. A few days ago, I witnessed the sun shining and the rain coming down. It was beautiful. You can almost see it in this picture if you enlarge it:
