It's August

Why shouldn’t you tell secrets on the farm? Because the corn has ears, the potatoes have eyes and the beanstalks.   Har-har-har!!!!!!

Lots of weeds, some prettier than others. Really like the moth Mullein and the Jewel-weed and wish there were more of them and less of the non-flowering weeds around!

Moth Mullein

Jewelweed

 Have a another hydrangea (I think) just starting to flower, another kind of lily, several Rose of Sharon are overblooming (you would never know I cut these back severely earlier this summer and one Zinnia

Rose of Sharon

Lily

Zinnia

Hydrangea I think

There are so many weeds everywhere. They don't seem to mind the dry weather - rainy weather - dry weather cycle.


The garden is performing okay. Some things are still way behind due to early leaves being eaten by the local critters, but things are starting to look like they might produce something. The race will be to see if I go home before they do - sigh

But I have lots and lots of squash (yellow, zucchini, delicata, and butternut), some cucumbers, some yellow wax beans, some green beans, some banana peppers and jalepenos, and best of all the tomatoes are starting to ripen. There are a few sweet peppers starting to form - they are supposed to be multi-colored but takes a lot longer to wait for them to go from green to a color, so we will see.

Have made squash casseroles, have "spiralized" squash and had as main or side dish several times, zucchini bread, muffins, cookies. Have eaten wax and green beans and now having tomatoes everyday- sometimes at every meal.

First 2 tomatoes

canned yellow and green beans

Yellow squash relish and
cucumber-dill relish

Zucchini muffins

zucchini oatmeal raisin cookies