Well, there hasn't been any posting for the month of July. It has been quite busy. With beautiful weather, a beautiful garden, and wonderful customers we have been too busy to keep you abreast of what has been in the garden. Let me give you a quick rundown:
- Our corn crop has ended. This was our first year to offer sweet corn, and we produced some fantastic corn. We had a lull during the middle of July, but the first and last of the month was fantastic. Our entire corn field has been mowed down and is ready to be tilled. To the right is one of our pickings for a customer who planned to cut it off of the cob and put it all up over a weekend.
- Our green beans started looking quite tattered, and after our fourth picking we decided this last Friday it was time to pull them up and make way for a couple of rows of beets (second photo). There is cooler-cloudy-rainy weather for most of this week, so the beets should get a good start and be ready for pickling before fall frost. Sorry, folks, but these will not be for sale, but for private/family use only.
- We had a beautiful patch of cantaloupe, but the melons would not turn from green to ripe...until they all ripened at once, nearly fifty of them. We have never had this happen before, so we guess the overly cool season helped us out a little too much. It was a challenge but we found homes for almost all of them. Next year we will stagger the melon hills instead of planting them all at once.
- Cucumbers have been a great success and a second planting has just begun to produce. They are some of the most beautiful pickling type of cucumbers you could imagine.
- Our Tomatoes have slowed down, but should pick back up in a week or two with cooler weather ahead.
- Okra is going gang busters, and shows no signs of letting up. That is what okra does. Now, come on out here and get some of this top notched produce.
- There's yellow squash, zucchini, eggplant, and peppers of all kinds too.
