We harvested our potatoes. There’s about 20 pounds of them, that’s a pretty good considering we planted about 4 pounds of seed potatoes.
The rest of Our garden is starting to put on some delicious fruit.
I can hardly wait to harvest them too.
I hope you all have a successful season
with whatever you are working on.
Happy Gardening!
In mid June I harvested several of my one ball squash. One of my favorite things about these squash are They keep a good long time on the counter with no need of refrigeration.
This 4th of July weekend, I was walking past the counter and looked down and saw Frass piled up on one of the squash I had harvested in mid-June.
I was not happy. Who’d of thought a squash vine borer could be in the stem alive after almost a month of the squash sitting on the counter.
I cut the grub out of the stem, took photos for this post and squished the little devil.
That grub means that my squash vines probably are on borrowed time. In a very short while the main vines in the garden will probably start dying. It makes me so made I could say something very unladylike.
The Squash Vine Borer is one of the most evil bugs in the garden because it’s almost impossible to do anything about them.
Here’s a photo of an adult Squash Vine Borer
I hope you all are having productive season
with no major infestations of pests.
Here’s my 1st squash harvest. I picked this little jewel to slice up and put on a pizza.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t taste the squash at all on the pizza because of all the other toppings and seasonings. Oh well, I tried.
Harvest 6-22-2014
We originally hadn’t planned to have a garden this year. We had decided to take a year or more off from gardening. We were both looking forward to not worrying with the work and responsibilities of gardening…
Then during one long dark boring winter evening we realized that Summer daylight hours are really long too. Other than yard maintenance and sitting on the back porch watching Shelibean chase bugs, we were headed for a very boring inactive Summer. We figure we need exercise and since we’re not much for athletics or any of the extreme walking nonsense, we decided to have a garden once again.
We plan on our garden being small, but that could change… and it always does…
We’re making plans and looking forward to tilling the soil, planting, weeding, harvesting and eating the produce of our labor… Yeah!
Last week I ordered a new supply of One Ball squash seeds. They arrived last Monday.
At our house, round squash has became a tradition. Now, I’m ready for garden season and purchasing the other seeds and plants we’ll try to grow.
One Ball Squash
So folks, get ready for another year of repetitive anecdotes and unprofessional garden photos straight from my home-place posted here on my blog. Lucky you. 😉
I hope you all are looking ahead and making
plans to spend time outdoors this Spring.
Joys Of Creating 