Can anybody do a rain dance?

This week has been another busy one around the farm. We are planting the last of the lettuces in the greenhouse for this fall. We are also planting the last successions of beans and corn for this season. These should take us up through the first frost.

The Mums are looking great and will soon start flowering. They are right on track to be Super-Sized! We have all colors. We should have some ready for sale around September 10th and will continue up through the middle of October. They will range from $15.00 - $20.00 each depending on the size. Let me know if you are interested in having some delivered to your pick up spot.

Keep your fingers crossed that we get some rain this week. We are watering like crazy, but the garden is beginning to suffer a little. The green beans are not doing as well as I would like, but the dry weather sure doesn’t seem to be bothering the tomatoes. They are running out of our ears!

Farm Tour and Dinner

We had a fabulous time this weekend for our Farm Tour and Dinner! We were so happy to see several of you and to share a wonderful afternoon. The food was great, but the fellowship was even better. It was nice to get to know some of you all better and show you around the farm.

The garden is doing really well and looks very nice with all the work we put in prior to the Dinner. I couldn’t have done it without Bo, Stew and Stilmon. Thanks guys! The corn is doing great as are the tomatoes and peppers. The green beans are also really coming on. We should have lots of varieties in coming weeks.

Tiny pumpkins

This week has been very busy around the farm trying to get ready for our Farm Tour and Dinner this coming Saturday. We have been busy cleaning up in the garden, barn and greenhouse and things are looking up.

Everything is growing like crazy in the garden with so many hot, sunny days lately. The tomato plants are starting to get so heavy the stakes barely hold them up now. The pumpkin vines have taken over one whole end of the garden and we even have some little pumpkins starting. All of the peppers are coming on and we should have a good variety for the boxes next week

Cleaning up and one casualty

This week I am thankful for a decent amount of rain. We have not had to water as much and everything looks great in the garden. The only recent casualty has been the squash plants. The vines have completely withered, so we will not have squash or zucchini until the second batch of plants come on in about a month. The tomato plants are bursting at the seams with tons of green ones. The peppers all look good too and the first batch of corn is almost ready.

This week has also been busy with general clean up around the farm. We were very behind on removing downed brush and limbs. My flower beds were overrun with weeds. Everything is looking much better. What a busy time of year!

Corn... almost

What a difference a week makes! Everything in the garden looks just about ready to pop. There are a zillion tomatoes on the vines and the peppers are coming on, too. The corn is almost ready… maybe next week. I am sure ready for some Sweet Corn.

Better weather this week

Positive thinking worked this week. Earlier in the week, the weather was beautiful! Since it wasn’t nearly as hot, Bo and I were able to get the weeds under control in the garden. We also continued our succession planting of beans and corn. This should give us a steady supply up into Fall.

The tomatoes are really beginning to come on. Some varieties are already ripening, but others are still very green. The cucumbers are beginning, too. We also have some squashes just starting. We should have some ready for next week. All of the peppers are looking good, but no fruit yet. Soon, I hope… I can’t wait for the banana peppers!

I was able to get most of the transplanting done in the greenhouse this week with several late nights. The greenhouse is one of my favorite places at night. It is so peaceful and a great place to get away from everything. Ears, the Cats and I accomplished a lot and everything looks great!

Positive thinking

I am in the mood to think positively this week, so I am going to be thankful for the upcoming weather this week. It is supposed to be a little cooler which will be a welcome break. Perhaps we will be able to get the weeds under control a little. Thinking positively may make it so. J
We had a couple trees fall with last weeks storms. Of course all of them fell on top of fences, but the damage was not too bad.

We also got the hay cut this week. Now you can see the Mum Pad from the road. It is quite an impressive sight. The Mums are growing almost as fast as the weeds!

The garden is coming along fabulously despite the weeds. The first batch of corn is already tasseling, so we are getting close. All of the beans are getting big and we even have a few ripe cherry tomatoes. There will be a few in the boxes this week…. just a taste of things to come. The cucumber and squash plants are really getting big. The sunflowers are as tall as my head.

All of the fall seeds have sprouted in the greenhouse and will be transplanted this week into larger pots. Everything looks super.