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| We wanted french fries so I scrounged around the garden for some more potatoes. In searching for some in the sweet potato bed, since there was a volunteer there, guess what I found? Um, duh! Sweet Potatoes! ;) No, I didn't dig any yet, but it is nice to know they are doing well! I CAN'T wait! |
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| Another nice harvest of beans, peppers and flowers! |
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| Yippee! Squash! Pennsylvania Dutch longneck pumpkin, suggested by Dave! And a Musque de Provence. The vines were totally dead so I hope they were ready. My first red cabbage and another green. More beans, peppers, raspberries, tomato and beets! |
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| Found this wild thing in the yard. Have you seen one before? This is the first time I have. It is a giant furry looking ant...um no wasp...um ant. It is a Red Velvet Ant but not really an ant but a wasp! Yep! And poisonous! Glad I don't see many or any of these! I was going to release it at the nature preserve but my kids let it out and it freaked me out so he didn't make it. I wasn't taking a chance on him or her! |
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| The beans are slowing way down :( But the peppers are still doing well. We had some on kabobs for dinner! Mmmm! Oh and can you see it? Look really really close! Closer! That small red thing in the center? Only the second cranberry I have gotten. The critters got the rest. And I lost the first one! My 3 year old may have eaten it. I guess I better work on better protection next year. I though since they were kinda sour the critters wouldn't eat them, but no, I was way wrong! |
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| And what are we doing for Labor Day? We will be planting a peach tree! Yay! I hope we are not in over our heads! But we got some fresh peaches at the farmers market the other day and we just couldn't help ourselves! They were just so darn good! Never had a store peach that good, EVER! NEVER! It's like candy around here! |
Beautiful, varied harvest as usual. I see you are getting lots of red noodle beans. What have you been doing with them?
ReplyDeletemostly sauteed with some garlic and butter and added to things like asian noodles and steak! Yummy!
DeleteI'm glad you got a neck pumpkin! They are doing great here. I'll bet the peach tree does well for you there.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave. I Have more out there, one of them is a GIANT, but I don't want to pick them too early. This one was on a dead vine though so I went ahead and brought it in.
DeleteYou are so right, a peach from the store tastes like cardboard compared to a peach from the farmer's market, and homegrown will be even better! Love the red velvet ants, I see them around here all the time but have never had a bad experience with them. Lots of beautiful goodies coming out of your garden.
ReplyDeleteLucky you realized about the sweet potatoes! That is a couple of pretty harvest pictures with the flowers and then the other one with the squash and pumpkin. Good luck on your peach tree. Nancy
ReplyDeleteI have yet to dig into our potatoes but your french fries sound like a perfect excuse to go out and get my hands dirty ;-) Great harvests, as per usual! Everything looks gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteBountiful and beautiful harvest, never seen a red velvet ant before, but I'm getting a new variety of cabbage worm, it's brown-black color not the usual green, yikes!
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I have a lot of those kind of worms too. They really like my broccoli!
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