Fruit of the Harvest

Sadie Mae sure is enjoying the melons and cucumbers. Anyone else have a bassett hound who eats such things? The "Minnesota Midget" melons are anything but midgets, but they are sweet and tasty!! Hungarian Heart tomatoes are HUGE. They remind me of beefsteaks with a different shape. Very sweet and juicy. Martina's Romas tomatoes are prolific. Great for salsa! Growing the basil in with the tomatoes seems to make them both very happy. Broccoli is growing and we should have a nice harvest before the first frost. I can't wait to try the potatoes. The vines still seem too vigorous to dig into the barrel and try them out. Japanese climber cucumbers are as good as ever (as witnessed by Sadie Mae). Our two disappointments this year--zucchini and the corn. I believe that we continue to succumb to vine borers on the zucchini. It grows initially and bears fruit only to die back from the stem. The corn has not done well at all. Both are Anazazi strains from Horizon Herbs. The early corn bore well with small but tasty ears. However the later corn's ears did not fill out at all or are very patchy. A huge disappointment. The kernels that did develop are a rainbow of colors and would have been delightful at a corn roast. Not sure what to make of it. We fertilized, watered and there appeared to be good pollination. Plenty of silks, but no kernels. Not recommended. Beets cooking now. Carrots are gorgeous multicolored and sweet. Jalapeno peppers doing well--flavorful and not too hot according to the family taste tester of hot things--David. The sweet peppers growing nicely and turning red. We've had 4 eggplants and more coming on, so with one plant, very pleased with how it is doing. Doubt we'll have cabbage. It is growing, but since we direct seeded, it just doesn't seem like it will have enough time before frost. Maybe. We'll see. KY Wonder pole beans coming on. The Anasazi pole beans have flowers, but no beans yet. Hope our growing season isn't too short.

All in all, we are sure blessed. No hurricane damage. No hail. No tornadoes. No drought. No floods.

Life IS good.