Herself returned home yesterday from visiting relatives on the East Coast and, early today, has picked the garden clean. Lots of tomatoes and other veggies, mostly tomatoes and greens.
From the looks of things I will probably be canning tomatoes tomorrow and probably pickling the last of the overgrown carrots. I couldn't pick them myself as a bad back keeps me from bending or squatting. I don't mind being old and wore out as it beats the heck out of being dead.
This season has been a bumper crop of most things we grow. The cukes are starting to drop their blossoms and the green beans are just starting to make beans. It's not like we don't still have jars of green beans and a half gallon of dried beans for soups and just bean dinners.
I'm often amazed by how much stuff we get off 32 feet of 4 feet wide raised beds plus the other beds along the fence line.
The kumquat tree is blooming and is a glory of white blooms. I hope this means a large crop come fall as I'm running low on kumquat marmalade, jelly, and chopped, frozen quats for pies and cakes. The fig tree was cut in half by the double freeze in January but the lone half has about a dozen figs ripening. Not enough for canning or cooking with but enough to get a couple of hand full's of eating figs.
I've given up on the blueberries and am preparing to yank them out and toss them or give them to someone who has a better site for them. I'm thinking of putting in some domestic dewberries in that site. They don't mind shade.
We're under a heavy weather forecast for the rest of the week but the skies are still clear. We do need more rain.
George