The summer seems to by flying by. It has been a challenging growing season this year. First we had an abundance of rain followed by days of extremely hot and humid weather. Currently the weather is beautiful, warm sunny days with cool nights. It’s been perfect weather for haying our field.
Despite the varied weather this summer my garden has done well. A few weeks ago I picked my garlic and it is currently drying in our garage on an old door screen.
The onion bed has been weeded and mulched and it won’t be long before it’s time to pick onions!
Last year I only got a few zucchinis, not sure what the problem was but this year I planted twice as many plants and guess what, I’m getting tons of zucchinis! I don’t mind, I love zucchini and I also need to make zucchini relish this year so I will make good use of the abundance.
The corn is doing all right, not as tall as I would like to see but it’s a new garden and considering our property used to be an old gravel bed I figure we’re doing ok. Each year we had more compost to the soil. Looks like I will be getting some corn this year. I did get the corn patch weeded and mulched, which was a major accomplishment!
It looks like I should have a good crop of tomatoes, just waiting for them to turn red.
The beans have been doing extremely well.
I was pressed for time with the first picking so I froze them. Looking forward to enjoying garden beans this winter!
It’s a wonderful year for blueberries! This past weekend my grand daughter and I spent some time picking.
No matter what challenges I face each year I love spending time in the garden. How is your garden doing this year?
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