I'm still putting up blueberries (20 lbs).
Sliced a few cucumbers up for vinegar-cucumbers. I typically use the recipe I posted years ago, but leave the oil out. I was plum out of garlic (getting pulled soon), and had one dinky dill plant to use for it).
New Recipe Tried - cucumber juice. Delicious. I just peeled and blended, strained the pulp, and added some organic lime juice and sugar to taste. The juice would be pretty good to make cucumber margaritas with too. The pulp was given to the chickens for a nice afternoon treat.
Speaking of rain...if we don't get any, I don't see us getting tomatoes, green peppers, turnips, chard, hot banana peppers, potatoes.....you get the picture. Watering with well water is great, but not good enough.
Yes...depressing year this year. I now have to find a resource for stocking up organic, freshly grown green beans. Almost makes me not want to plant a garden next year.
Even thought the squash all looked great, it's not producing anything now. What was producing is now looking like it's dying off or not growing right. Even the cucumbers.
I seriously need to focus on something else. Something positive. Something constructive - target practice? I had another driveway "creeper" the other day while I was sitting on the front porch. It may help blow off some steam too.
We were also invited to a weekend bike week in WV. We turned it down, and now I wish we didn't. I soooo need a break from negativity, bad mojo, and set backs. Every day starts with several cups of coffee, combined with heavy sighs.
I'll be honest, I'm not even sure a motorcycle ride would revive me. I've been down right cranky, miserable, tired, and as "Youngest" called me, salty.
Even the chickens are causing havoc. Four got out of the run fence the other day. Guess I better check the fence. Then again, maybe I should just let them have at it in the garden?
Hubby has lost his mojo for just about anything too. The truck now needs work, two tires need replaced on the car, he's way behind in mowing, and the hitch has not made it's way to the truck. Which means no camping, and we haven't gone camping for 1 1/2 years now, and that is definitely one of my "happy places.
Stand by, while I go find my "happy" place.....I'm sure ya'll getting tired of my weed posts.
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Oh, that's beautiful corn! You will be well-fed, corn-wise, all winter. I am missing my green beans, too. I started some in mid-July, so I am hoping for a fall crop - even if it's just a handful or two. We seem to have the same weed infestation. It's so discouraging when you work your fanny off for hours, then a week later, they're back. It's too bad you didn't get to camp yet - maybe it's time to focus on the hitch and hit the road!
Susan, I was about to tell Hubby I'd bake him a zucchini blueberry snack cake if he'd take me camping, ha ha! I hope to fall plant the green beans, but need to get Hubby out to mow down the weeds where it didn't come up first. It's too big of an area to hand hoe and still plant in time.
This year is only my 5th year to garden. We didn't have a place big enough until we moved here, but I'm discovering that every year is different. One year I had three spaghetti squash plants and I could have feed the whole community. The next year I had none and this year I have 2 plants and four squash so far. I have a pumpkin vine that has gone crazy, it is beautiful and 15 feet long, but only one pumpkin. I'm delighted that we are not like the pioneers and have to only depend on what we grow as our only source of food.
Happy gardening!
Connie :)
Connie, that's sort of why I am a bit grouchy this summer. I strive for self-sufficiency and living off what we raise and grow, and this year has definitely been a struggle, challenge and constant care.
What’s a driveway creeper? I just went and read back over recent posts to see if there was something I’d missed, but didn’t find any
Would it be worth clearing a space and planting a late crop of beans? A break away sounds like the perfect tonic.
Mary, I have had people drive in and stop by the old downed barn and walk around it without even knocking on the door. They drive by and want the old barn wood. And one time a young kid just barreled into my driveway, stopped by the standing barn, got out and did something in his trunk for a long time. My dogs were barking madly and he still didn't come around the car. I went stood to where he would see me and when he did, he got in and took off. Another time a guy pulled in and stopped, put his seat back and was going to just simply sleep off whatever he was high on (thankfully Hubby was home that day). I had a guy pull in and just sit in the driveway looking down, close to my porch, which I was sitting. He didn't leave, and I was not going to approach him, but watched him. I decided to go inside lock the door and continue to watch. When I did that he took off. I am hearing robberies right no peoples porches, and I don't trust anyone anymore. It's a scary world when you live so close to a country highway.
mamasmercantile, we plan to try and fall plant the green beans. It's worth a try anyway.
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