Corn, Okra and More Pumpkins

Corn and Okra are starting to come in.  We shucked the corn here and every top had a worm, 

but price you pay for organic corn. The pie pumpkins are plentiful!  

We started canning last week and have 8 quarts so far.  

I made pico de gallo from the small tomatoes, and we snack on cherry tomatoes, our summer candy.

 

August Garden

Beans (17.5 quarts) are in the freezer.  It took us one week of pulling and shelling.  I weeded the okra rows today getting ready to pick them, and found volunteer tomatillos and a gourd.  I also uncovered some real nice butternuts from under the Johnson grass.  We planted them in June, but had forgotten where.  The corn has cobs with silk!!!

Tomatoes and Peppers are coming in.  We planted a small early tomato, Stupice, which made good pico de gallo!!!  A larger one we tried, Mortgage Lifter, are turning red now.  The Celebrity canning tomato are looking good.  We also cut some early pumpkins which we grew from last years jack o lanterns.

Lima Beans

We have our first crop of Lima Beans ever at Buzzard Roost, thanks to our folks who told us a good cultivar for our soil, Henderson Lima Beans!  I love them and I am looking forward to the beans.  We harvested our pintos today.  Rain was in the forescast so we just pulled the plants and put them in the barn, and now we our pulling the beans off the vines and shelling.  This will probably take all week!

 

Sunflowers are blooming like crazy.  We plant them for the flower vase and our gold finches.

Corn has tassels!!!