Garden Update - August 7, 2014

3 Sisters bed - it's full.

Ears of corn are filling out nicely

This use to be a 5 foot wide row of empty space

We have at least 2 Jack O' Lanterns on vine

Butternut squash just getting going

Buen Gusto de Horno squash.  I wanted at least one of the really ugly, bumpy looking ones.

Long pie pumpkin living up to it's name....this thing is about 20" long already.

It's a madhouse in there!  Been harvesting Pole beans as well.

Filius Blue peppers - disregarding their name.

The 'ol rubber snake in the apple tree trick seems to be working well so far to keep the squirrels at bay.  Some of them are plumping right up and are even edible now - the apples, not the squirrels.  Well, for me at least....still a bit tart for Kaya's taste.

Thought the Kale and Collards had just about run their course, I had harvested most of the leaves.  But just a few weeks later, we're ready for another round of harvest.  Been snacking on the carrots in the back, they are slowly coming along.  I just replanted the front of this bed with beets, parsnip, spinach and more carrots for a late fall harvest.

Nothing like last year, but I should get a decent tomato haul.  Some of them are getting pretty loaded.  No red yet, but still another 2 months of growing season around these parts.

Sunflowers in the back are pushing above 8' but have yet to flower.  Trellised cukes are still producing in mass quantities.  Melons in the front are taking over this part of the yard.

Girls helped me pick cukes last weekend in the blazing sun.  I have already put up 15 quarts of dill and bread n' butter's.  This batch filled the 2 gallon crock and will be fermented into deli dills. 

One of the Texas Golden watermelon.

Ali Baba Watermelon - just a tad bigger than a football right now.

Remainder of the onions.  Most had fallen over and then I knocked down the rest to finish their in-ground cure.  Pulled them a couple weeks after that.  They are currently laying in the sun to finish their outdoor cure.  I'm going to use this space for the broccoli and brussels sprouts seedlings that I've been hardening off.

Couple of Minnesota Midget melons.  I pulled one the other day to see if it was ready.  Nice orange flesh on the inside, but it was still lacking the sweetness.  I'll try again in a week or so.  There must be 30+ of them in the patch!

The "other" melon patch.

Tigger melon

Takoda can't get enough of the apples.  If there are none on the ground he'll even steal one right off a low hanging branch.  There is however an unwelcome side effect - they give him stinky toots.  Oh well, blaming it on the dog is nothing new around here...