Perfect night for a fire!

So here’s the plan..

…move the wood pile to the cardboard and put the twigs to start the fire in the blue container.  Fires have been few because wood has been too wet or it’s been too windy OR I didn’t want to FIGHT the mosquitoes!!!  OH.. and I’ll cover it with a tarp. This will give that area more room for the picnic table!   The white posts and green webbing on the blueberry bushes are ugly but serving the purpose…  no dogs are lounging in it or running through it.   I have other plans for that!!

Dog’s hunting!!

I tell ‘em…  “get that rabbit” because rabbits are eating my stuff!  Remember those carrots I planted….

      

It’s really not smart…

…to collect ripe cherry tomatoes and then collect big tomatoes and put them in the bag on TOP of the small, ripe cherries!

Yep! I grew it all!

Just too hot!

How to Freeze Peaches

Add 2/3 cup sugar to 1 quart of cut up fruit. (you can add Fruit Fresh to the sugar if desired, this is a citric acid which is a natural Vitamin C)

Mix gently with a wooden spoon, just until it draws a juice and the sugar is dissolved.

Package in freezer bags or containers, leaving headspace. Freeze immediately.

 

…….some day I’ll have enough to freeze…  in the meantime the peach from my tree was delicious!

huh?

A perfect example of “if you want to know the weather, look out the window instead of the TV”!!

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yea!!  no getting up early to water the vegetables!

August update!

Well…. I picked my first PEACH from my tree!  Been eating a few blueberries and raspberries but no blackberries so far.   There are only a few strawberries but at least the plants now have a home and I look forward to more. There are bunches and bunches of grapes.   Have picked 5 or 6 eggplant and a few more cucumbers.  A billion tomatoes will ripen real soon... probably during this next heat spell.  I've had a few peppers and 2 carrots are growing (the tomatoes pushed them out..  have to find another place for them). The squash, melons and watermelons have suffered because I'm a procrastinator but there is still hope. Most of the apples are rotting on the tree (gotta figure that out) but the pear tree is amazing  I'm looking forward to rhubarb next year and will figure out a way to get to the cherries before the birds do!  Pretty darn cool, huh?

The “east” beds…

From most recent to spring…

SO..  this area has been the home to critters as long as I remember.  Ari and Kobie would race here to hunt!  Why did I think that changed!  The area has a raised bed made with concrete blocks for a tomato plant and I thought for carrots but they never got planted.  There is also a pallet box where peppers are planted.. red and yellow and purple.. oh my!!  I started out with 2 trellis put together thinking I could also use it to cover the bed in case of an insect, bird or hail event.   After the dogs nearly demolished the bed I reevaluated and decided to attach plastic fencing to the trellis and create a barrier hoping the dogs (although Jake is shown checking it out!) would get the picture which I think they have.  I rebuilt the concrete bed adding more blocks, added more dirt to both beds and then topped off with straw.  We’ll see!  We were being watched by a cardinal in August!

To see the carnage, click here!l
And here…

Progress through June and July….

May 30th – planted..

Yard art ideas from the county fair!!

           

       

Well I guess all the pictures aren’t yard art!