Here They Come

 I wish all the other veggies were doing as well as the tomatoes.  I had to pull all of our zucchini yesterday.  Out of a million plants, we gone 1 lone zucchini.  Looks like no zucchini bread this year.  I have replanted 6 plants and I am hoping I didn't wait too late.

It Was A Very Good Day

We picked a few tomatoes this morning. And then we really got to work.  And trimmed a few stalks up to give them some breathing room.

Then we unloaded buckets and buckets full of dirt into all the other beds.

All this work was done under the watchful eye of our little fake feathered friend.

I planted six more zucchini plants in the bed that has the mystery plant.

We moved the Dig Pit box back over to its correct spot in the yard for the yahoos.

And I filled it with black walnuts from our neighbor's tree that got blown in our yard by the rain last night.  The yahoos love finding them.  Now they have a place to put them.

Lunch after all of that hard work.

A First For NottaLotta Farm

 A few weeks ago we were invited to Jen's birthday party.  We tried to think of a unique gift to give her.  I think we came up with a pretty great one.  One no one else could give her.

But first, we needed to come up with our logo.  Alaire, the creative one, came up with one that I just love and it will be forever part of the CSA.  We are now an official CSA!

I found two old peach baskets and grabbed the twine from the schoolroom.  Fresh-picked veggies and flowers from the yard.

We even delivered it.  Walter is checking it out through the door.

Hey Ellis, maybe you could make up some business cards for us.

Happy birthday Jen.  We will be filling the baskets as long as the veggies last.

Wow! Just Wow!

I swear I think I see a zucchini!

Some Patty Pan Squash starting to show up.

Murph's peppers

more peppers

tower of lettuce

jalapeno peppers

And this IS NOT GOOD!  He is a nasty squash vine borer.

Just look at what was waiting for us to pick when we got home.

The Bruce Boy Farmers

 

We are hoping a million hopes that this is a pumpkin!

Levi found a cucumber.

You have to watch that little farmer in the red shirt.  He loves to pick and eat strawberries.

We Don't Mess Around

Day two with Adi and Jase started out with a big breakfast because we had lots to do in the garden and with two fresh farm hands I wanted them to be ready!

By the look on her face, this is the best thing ever.

And then her pancakes came!

Jase could not even look up from his mug.

I think he might be excited too.

I made some special watering jugs for all the yahoos.  They worked out great.

We needed a little bit of compost for some flowers so Adi and Jase jumped right in.

Watering the new plants in.

Picking a few Sunsugar tomatoes.

Let the cleaning begin.

We cut an entire milk crate full of tops.

washing potatoes

washing onions

Putting them out to dry, counting, and sorting them. 

We even got to have dinner with the Rockholds.

Another great day down on the farm.

A Day Of Firsts

I got to have every one of these beauties for breakfast this morning, DELICIOUS!!!

He checks on them even in the rain.

If we could have a few hot days I think the cucumbers would pop.  Today Murph and I split this beauty.  A sweet little beauty.

We split the first two tomatoes.  The Mr. Snow was almost a sweet taste.  The Akers WV was really good too.

First Tomatoes!!!

Akers WV

An heirloom.  Look how big.  I am so excited!

Mr. Snow!  Two of them I am so excited to try them.

That's a handful of tomatoes!

And Pappy was behind the camera today.  Trouble with a capital T!

July 4th Was A Work Day

 

The garden doesn't wait.  When things need to be done you do them.  We had a massive pile of free mulch and we needed to get it out of the driveway so that is what we did on the 4th of July.

We are planning to put something in this bed a little later in the month.  The garlic is all harvested and drying.  There are a few rows of onions that we are waiting for.

The Potting Bench Bed AKA The Big Raised Beds because sometimes I can't remember its fancy name has about 4 inches of mulch throughout.

The back walkway has no weeds! Yet.

We had just enough to fill in around the oak tree.

The hosta are going to love it.  We just hope the Naked Ladies will be able to make their way through it all when the time comes.

I am so glad that we finished this up.  Now I can focus on the last LARGE flower bed that will take me the rest of the summer to take care of.  But that is okay.  I'll garden in the shade for as long as it takes.