Watermelons and Pumpkins

Our watermelons. Yep, they're small!


Our pie pumpkins. A couple of days after this was taken, D brought in about 6 more small ones. Pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies with cinnamon chips. yummmmmmm.........

Sunflower

Duane took this pic of one of our dwarf sunflowers. He doesn't know what he did to make the pic look blue! We didn't enhance it on the computer, it came out that way!

Pickles

Today I made 6 quarts of bread and butte pickles, and 12 pints of sweet pickles.

Tonight, D pulled up 3 hills of cucumber plants. We had 6 hills, and each hill had 3-4 plants. We were getting SOOOO many cucumbers that we couldn't keep up with them. We've given away all that we can, no one wants anymore. So we slowed down production by getting rid of half of our plants.

Pictures

Mallow in the Bible Garden

A dwarf sunflower on Sunflower Island

The Chicken Garden & Front Garden

This morning, I spread hay around the roma tomatoes, green peppers and broccoli in the Chicken Garden.

I also spread hay between the combination rows of corn and green beans. The green beans are growing faster than the corn. So I had to seperate the gb. I ran one line of string, but need to get more to string up all the rows. They are supposed to be stakeless green beans. Guess they were wrong!

The Chicken Garden

Phew! The weeds are thriving here! This morning, I hoed around the roma tomatoes, green peppers, and broccoli. Then spread newspaper out.