Today I’m going to spend the day puttering in the garden. I bought some new work gloves and a kneeling pad, so I can work with ease. I need to clean and clear a good quarter of the garden where the powdery mildew has destroyed my squash. I was upset about it for a while, until I realized how truly sick of summer squash and zucchini I am. Before the powdery mildew hit, the plants were extremely prolific and we’ve been eating squash nearly every night. Cooked almost every way that you can imagine!
Next year diversity is the key. I will have maybe two zucchini plants and two summer squash. Then I want to plant eggplant, peppers, maybe some corn. Anything but hill upon hill of squash.
The cucumbers? Yes, I’ll still plant a lot of those. Making pickles, piccalilli and mustard pickles is fun, and we all know how much I love mustard pickles!
So I’ll be puttering in the garden. Maybe the dogs will play outside with me. The sun will shine and life will be good.
I’m taking this week off from Saturday Scavenger Photo’s. I wracked my brain for an idea about how I could present the theme of “money”, but I realized that money is the one area that I’ve never been comfortable with. Money means very little to me, it just pays the bills.
I’ll be back next week…
maybe you could send back some of those mustard pickles, etc., with Megan!!!
Your garden sounds so wonderful! enjoy your weekend! it’s cloudy today and in the low 80ºs, it’s wonderful to have a little break from that heat wave. Cheers!
I had the same problem this week…
Have a great weekend!
Enjoy working on the garden!! Sounds like so much fun –and work too.
My Saturday Photo is posted with my 2 cents worth!
If you need more digging to do I have a small bed of orange lilly bulbs that I want to get rid of. LOL Just kidding! Have fun in the garden!
Gardening is a great way to spend a Saturday. Sorry the powdery mildew got into your garden.
My photo is up. (Flickr is having problems right now so there is a Blogger version too.)
I did a bad job on my money pic too but come and check out me wedding photos in honour of our 17th anniversary!