Happy Monday everyone! August is rushing by in a bit of a blur. Have you ever heard the saying that goes something like, “life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans”? Yeah…that’s the kind of the month I’ve had so far and there seems to be no end…
While on my morning stroll through the garden a couple of days ago, I noticed that our small patch of sweet corn in the front yard was completely covered in bees. I spent a long time admiring the beautiful dance the bees were doing among the flowers and leaves and…
I plant sweet corn not only because I adore the taste of it…but because I am also in love with the way the wind dances through its leaves, singing its beautiful songs of summer…
The sweet corn in the back yard seems to be confused…it’s not even 3 feet tall, but it’s starting to try to produce corn…weird! The German Butterball Potatoes are getting ready to flower! The Butternut Squash is getting some color texture! Bush Beans, Pole Beans and Snap Peas Mystery tomatoes…
The first pie pumpkin The first (ever) acorn squash I love the texture in this bed…Sunflowers, tomatoes and acorn squash Ashes made her way outside, Bo was not happy about it… Baby tomatoes…not suffering from butt rot The first lemon cucumber…the previous few mysteriously disappeared… The first bush snap pea…