We’ve been up to a lot this last month – it still just keeps raining way too much, so everything tends to be sopping wet. Some veggies are finally starting to produce/ripen. I’m hoping the rains don’t hurt the harvest – I’m worried about tomatoes splitting. Oh, and we’ve also already had frost warnings – some areas near me actually had frost a week or so ago, but we lucked out at the house and didn’t get any frost. Here are some pics from the last few weeks:
The garden mid-August. You can see the soaked muddy ground here.Another pic from mid august.We found a visitor in the garden. He was huge! I wish the picture had turned out less fuzzy.Here are the chickens coming to see if we brought them any treats.A bubble – my son got a bubble wand from a birthday party, and we took some photos.Here is about half of the potato harvest. We harvested the last 4 (out of 8 or 9) bags. We really didn’t get a lot – I will try a different method next year (and keep the plants away from the chickens) – the food bags didn’t work as well as I’d hoped. I think we planted more seed potatoes, weight-wise, than we harvested.A fuzzy picture of our raspberries. I put them in a couple years back, and finally got a decent crop, BUT they don’t taste like raspberries. One berry had a hint of raspberry flavor. I’ve tried letting them ripen more but those just rotted, so it’s not that they’re not ripe enough. I’ll have to research this variety more. They are good, just not what I want them to taste like.Our first ripened tomatoes of the season, on one of the cherry tomato plants.Early Girl tomatoes – these are the next to ripen – this pic is from a few days ago but I noticed one is a little pink today.Black Krim tomatoes. These will get red on the bottom when ripe. They keep this nice dark color on top.Blue beauty tomatoes. They are more of a purple tomato when ripe.Some beautiful Zinnias.Another Zinnia.A question mark made from potatoes – my husband set these up, using this silly shaped one we got.A large pumpkin waiting to ripen. It’s supposed to be an 8″ pie pumpkin variety, but this one is a bit larger than that.Here is a smaller pumpkin.We sold some hens today – our 3 year olds and a two-year old. We’re trying to bring our food bill down for the coming winter. Here the ladies are waiting for their ride this morning. We now have 22 chickens (20 hens and 2 roosters). And 3 ducks.I took this really nice picture tonight – The sunflowers have some really nice flame colors.
Thanks for checking out our late summer pictures. Hopefully this rain will let up a bit and we’ll have a nice fall harvest.
My tiny u.p. farm 