I puttered. I worked for three hours solid in the garden.
I pulled weeds. I took dead plants out of the garden. I took dead leaves off of the plants. I filled three wheelbarrows with garden garbage! And in the process got a little sunshine on my pastey white skin. In fact, the old back is a tad red tonight, and a wee bit sore!
I won’t lie and tell you that the garden looks better. It looks like it’s been mauled and maimed.
However, at least the dead and diseased plants have been removed for now and I harvested more cucumbers. Yes, more cucumbers! I don’t feel the garden has been a disaster, even though it got this powdery mildew. Call that an act of God!
We have eaten a lot of summer squash, some zucchini, made a ton of pickles and eaten a bunch too. For a first garden, I’m actually thinking it was a rousing success. Of course next year I will do things differently and I hope to avoid some of the pitfalls I encountered this year.
I’ve enjoyed the gardening, and I’ve enjoyed learning to make pickles. Oh, and I have a new favorite pickle dish, Mustard Pickles!!!
I came in after working like crazy and found I’d been stung by some sort of Bee 3 times! The little bugger! I was also breaking out in a strange rash. So, I jumped in the shower with my brown soap and washed and rinsed away my garden sweat. Ooops, my garden glistening!
I felt a little like I’d been run over and decided to lie down after lunch. No sooner had my head hit the pillow, than there was a knock at my door. An old friend from my previous life stood there. She came to introduce me to the new man in her life.
We sat on the back patio enjoying the breeze and talking. A little about the old days and a little about the new. We showed them the fruit trees, which are doing far better than my garden, and walked around the yard some before they needed to head off to go back home.
After they left I went back out and took a few pictures of the fruit. It’s looking rather delicious now. Soon the peaches will be ready to pick, then the plums, apples and pears.
One of our Peaches
The Plums
A Pear
Ah yes, life on a farm. Well sort of. We’re growing some of our food, and we have two animals, so that’s close enough! Right?
That peach is DIVINE! Too bad some bug is chewing on your leaves or that would’ve been a stunning photo.
I think your garden looks fine. Certainly not mauled. But, what do I know.
If you want to call it a farm, who am I to argue. ;0]
Course, out here…no matter what you raise it would be ranch. teeeheee.
I’d be knocking on your door begging for cukes if I lived close. Hmmmm.
Pam
The fruit looks fantastic. The plums on our plum tree don’t look very good but it is the first year it has fruited…..only time will tell 🙂
You’re soooo lucky I don’t live nearby else I’d be charging through your yard in the dead of night (bribing the dogs with treats of course) and stealing all your fruits and vege! They look SO good. Do you make your own peach and plum jams too?
You must not have any squirrels in your neighborhood to have such tasty looking fruit.
My father can’t hardly grow any Guavas because of those furry mungers, who scarfing them down before they are even ripe!