Berries, Veggies, Bread & Seeds

We are starting to get a few strawberries again!  How wonderful!!!

Starting to get raspberries once again.  The second wonderful!!  Large yellow tomato, green onion, lettuce and two cucumbers.  Happy for it all!  Just right for us two young folks and Coco!

More plus a green pepper!

Another green pepper!

Cucumber, my first yellow squash and a cucumber that got away from me!  Hate when that happens.

The cabbage is all harvested now.  Have some in the refrigerator for making cole slaw or freezing for soups.

I had not baked bread for quite awhile so was a happy camper to get this baked!

Has anyone grown Red Winter Kale before?  Purchased some seed and thought I would try it!  That's it for today!!!!!  Enjoy your harvests!

More Veggies, Zuke Bread and Dill Vinegar

I have been harvesting a zucchini pretty steady now.  Also lots of sungold and some cherry tomatoes.  Seems like the harvest is slow this year but maybe it is just impatient me!

Margaret made chocolate zucchini bread so I thought I would try it.  Tasted good but turned out crumbly.  Hers didn't!  My cucumbers are finally starting to produce!  I picked a yellow tomato but it wasn't quite ripe.  How can I tell when yellow tomatoes are ripe??  Another zucchini and a green pepper!

The beauty of the Hibiscus flower amazes me.  We had a hard winter and I thought maybe it had died.  I wish the flowers would bloom longer as they are so pretty. Pink is my favorite color to wear!

I planted just a few more beet seeds.  Hoping they will grow so I will have the beet greens and freeze up the beets both to go in my smoothies!  Awhile back I made some chive vinegar.  I did not get to it soon enough to make a lot so thought I would try making some dill vinegar.  Are you enjoying and harvesting a lot from your gardens??

Potatoes, Flowers & Preserving!

My potatoes did not do well this year.  I guess where I planted them the soil was too hard!

Made up a batch of zucchini bread!  It is delicious!  Used my friend's recipe.  Should get some ambition and make some more!  Are you busy preserving from your garden this summer?

This is my third time to plant cucumbers!  I finally saw a couple little cucumbers today!  Maybe I will get some yet!

My friend Ann, was kind enough to give me some cucumbers from their wonderful garden!!  Here are two batches of freezer dills in the process.

I don't believe I have seen this many flowers before on just one sunflower stem!!!  Have you??

I took the top off this yard art today and was going to move it and what a strange sight popped out!  We are making our yard easier for these two "young people" to care for and are taking this area out.  So far we have had seven bushes and the grape vine taken out.  Will make for much less weeding around.  I plan to keep the veggie garden, flowers and raspberries!!   Back to this strange sight!  Remember the asparagus patch Coco kept getting into.  She was getting caught in the wire of the fence we put around it to keep her out (which didn't) so we took the wire down and it became "Coco's Asparagus Patch!"  One asparagus root escaped her as you can see growing back along the white fence.  When I took the cover off the yard art today and this popped out I bet it must be another asparagus!  This patch just doesn't give up!!!!!!

Come take a walk with me!!!

Since reading the book "Great Garden Companions" by Sally Jean Cunningham I decided to companion plant flowers with my veggies to keep the bugs out.  I guess I now have more flowers than veggies!!  Here is a video of my back yard today!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlKj0VpJlDU&list=UULlOnrcwSCuJjmm22Bhl9QA

Raspberries, Zukes, Chives, Beet Greens & Kale

Bah Humbug!!  Hot, humid and skeeters are bad but thankful for what I get!  Raspberries, zucchini, and chives.  Couple beet greens and kale for my smoothies!

What do you think?  This was a nice clump of Pinks.  Was green and bloomed nicely this spring.  About the third year for them in my garden. Never looked like this before! Are they dead?  Will they come back?  Should I dig them out and throw away???????  Wisdom needed!

Coco is wandering around in my flower bed.  Would you say she is thinking there must be some food here somewhere!!!

Harvesting a cherry tomato or sungold once in awhile!

One cabbage, two zukes and raspberries!  Enjoying them all!

Finally starting to get a few green beans!  Three more cherry and sungold tomatoes and more raspberries!!  Hooray!

More green beans make me happy and a couple sungolds!  Well, that's it for this time!

July Garden Pictures

Here are some pictures of my July garden for those that didn't see them on our Facebook page.  Our daughter-in-law Elizabeth, son Dan and granddaughter Abigail came to visit from MD.  Elizabeth takes much better pictures than I do so I wanted to share them on my blog. This is one of my Asian pear trees.  Hope you enjoy!

This is Abigail.  She helped me deadhead the Marigolds and did a great job.  I could use her every week!

Guess who wants to come into the garden to snitch some veggies!

My great helpers - Abigail and Coco!

This is one of my favorites that Elizabeth took.

Again a picture of Abigail and I.

We have three of these birdhouses on poles.  The new ones are all painted and ready to be put up to replace these old ones now.

Clematis

This is another one of my favorites!

One of the pots on our deck.

We enjoy the sound of the water running in our new fountain very much.  Thanks for looking!!!!

Davis Harvest!

Another big blueberry harvest!!!  Aren't you envious!!

Green seems to be the color theme for this picture.  One cabbage, one green pepper and two zucchini!!

Green and now red!!  I haven't even started my Christmas shopping yet!  Raspberries are starting to ripen nicely now!  Yum!

Three green beans picked today so guess I had better check my other box in the morning.  It is so hot and humid here that I don't want to be out in the afternoons!  I wonder if this is how our summers will be like from now on!

All out of dehydrated apples so we got another dehydrator full going today.  This is the start of the hopefully big busy harvest season!!  So much to be done!  Hope your gardens are producing wonderfully!!  Have a good week!