"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." -Confucius. Took a little vay-k to Wisconsin to see family. Man do they have some good food up that-a-way. This is a picture of Mom's new pad complete with garage, shed, three acres, and apple trees! So happy for y'all.
Three varieties were all producing lots of fruit. yum.
When we got back we were greeted by this, nine foot tall sunflowers!
Got a lot of catching up to do harvest wise.
Harvested two bushels of shelling peas this weekend. They then had to be shelled, blanched and frozen. Looks like we can count on about two bushels a week for the next four or five weeks.
So we'll be spending a lot of time doing this.
We'll be putting away a bushel of snow peas that I just picked tonight.
Squash world is a jungle right now. The pumpkin vines are about ten feet long with fist size fruit. Got about a half dozen fist size acorn squash going and the summer squash are starting to yield. The temperature got down to 37 last night. Yikes! Hopefully we get a few more weeks before it drops much lower!
"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him." -Buddha. Here's a classic trail crew sign. Look out.
So far we've put away four cases of tomatoes. That's 100 pounds in 24 quart jars. Hopefully we can get 70-100 quarts put up before winter.
The zucchini bonanza is on! Just keeping up with harvest is a challenge. We picked two dozen squash this week.
Dill is blooming.
Late Broccoli is in.
Borage is going off.
Their called Mammoth Gray Stripe for a reason.
Bread seed Poppies.
The gardener's best friend hard at work.
