It’s another rainy morning on the farm. It has rained quite a bit this summer. I don’t know the official rain total amounts, I just know it’s rained a lot. In spite of the fact that we’ve had a lot of rain, our creek has dried up. In this picture, the creek is coming from…
This week I worked on preserving some of our harvest. This is part of what my husband carried in the other night night. This is one huge tomato! That’s my hand holding it, granted, I have small hands, but it’s a huge tomato! Oh boy, was it ever delicious! I blanched and froze the green…
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a picture of the whole vegetable garden. I was standing in the road when I took this picture.You can see the two large yellow squash plants that are giving us lots of squash. To the right of the squash plants there is a cantaloupe with 4 or 5 little…
Another hot week in Kentucky. Temps in the upper 90’s and a heat index above 100 a couple of days. We had heat advisories this week. I had 2 kids at horse camp this week.Thankfully their instructor watched them carefully and kept them hydrated. I remembered to take pictures of the tomatoes before we ate…
We had much better weather this week. Not as hot and no where near as humid. So we were able to get out and work in the garden some. And boy does it need it! We’ve been enjoying eating sugar snap peas. The plants are about gone now. It will be time soon to plant…
It has been so hot this week! In the 90’s everyday. And that’s not even counting the humidity! So, needless to say, we have not worked in the gardens this week like we should have. Everything is still progressing nicely, though. Here are apples on the trees in our yard. My husband moved 5 trees…
After last weeks Get Real Edition, I still haven’t finished the weeding. I really must rally the troops and get the weeding done. Despite our not weeding, the plants are looking good. The peas have a ton of blossoms on them. These are the sugar snap peas, the kind where you eat the whole pod….