Huh, interesting maybe. This year has been very unique. Starting last week was the first time I've had water my stuff, since a week after Mothers Day weekend, when I planted.
Well, the green beans plants have been decimated by something with a voracious appetite. Nothing else touched...just the GBs. Not a happy camper. I was really looking forward to having plenty for at least part of the winter. Next year, I'm posting armed guards. I think it's the killer wabbits we have. Time to fortify the ramparts, batten down the hatches,.....or something.
This reminds me of a story my Mother in Law told me back in the 70's: "I was having my coffee the other morning, looking out the back door at the garden. I watched a rabbit with a baby following behind, it was so cute. The mother sniffed the beans, craned its neck and took a delicate bite of a bean. Then the baby reached up, and also took a bite. This repeated, and I thought to myself, 'How cute--the mother is teaching the baby how to eat a bean!' Then I thought, 'THE RABBITS ARE EATING THE BEANS!' and went out to chase them."
Little stinkers. If you can't find a product called, "I Must Garden" (wonderful stuff!!) get some red pepper and sprinkle. That'll do it.
Yep. The little bastages got 'em all. They were doing very well too. Only a small raised bed full. One day, there were a few that had been nibbled, then a couple days later......gone. The first time, I didn't see any little footie prints. I'll look today. They did leave the stems....
Starting to pull turnips now, daikons should be ready soon too. Tomatoes are getting close, peppers are starting to get loaded too. Salsa time is coming!
I'm starting to can salsa today. Just getting enough maters starting to get it rolling. I love fresh salsa.... Can't beat it.
No vegetable garden for me this year because of my bum knee. I finally got the rider mower into the backyard when I had my garden last year. I had the garden till for me this spring. The garden spot had knee high weeds. Very discouraging until I looked closer and saw that many of those weeds were volunteer tomato plants, many in bloom. I want to try to dump some fertilizer in there and weed whack some of the competition. Who knows, maybe nature is smiling on me too.
Nothing, absolutely nothing like fresh picked into the pot corn. I didn't know what it was like as we always had many days old corn in our stores until one summer we visited someone who had a corn patch. The pot was boiling, he went out, picked and husked corn and threw them in the pot. I couldn't believe it was the same vegetable. Needless to say, I ate a few.
Normally I don't like to pick it all at once, but it needed picked NOW and wasn't going to wait a few days. I might grill some tonight.
