I had a big update ready to post about a week or so ago. Right before I hit the send button, we lost our electricity. It was out for a couple of hours, I never did get back to repost it. What a bummer.
Let's see, what's happening now in the garden.
I've pulled the green beans and tomatoes out. The peppers are still in & producing somewhat. The basil needed cutting. I had 4 batches planted, 2 purple & 2 green. I cut, dried & crushed them all and filled up a quart jar of dried basil. It smelled wonderful. I like how the purple looks, but I like the green basil better. It has bigger leaves and is easier to process for me.
Okra is doing good. It's quite a bit taller than in this pic. Should be flowering soon. It was taken right before we got all our ran little over a week ago. Not a drop of rain since last weekend.
My cherokee tan pumpkins have really taken off. I planted 5 seeds, and the vines have spread to the other side of the trellis. I've let them root on the off side, then turned them back up to grow back over the trellis to where they started.
The side you see here used to have my cantaloupes on it. I pulled them down to let the ct pumpkins grow. They've gone nuts.
I have 12 pumpkins growing for sure, and several small ones I'm waiting to see if they got fertilized or not. I like how they look hanging down from the trellis. It's rumored that the Seminole Indians had a similar pumpkin called the Seminole Hanging pumpkin. In fact, these may be the same if not cousins to them. The Seminole's would plant the seeds around trees and let the vines climb up in the tress. The pumpkins would hang down as they grew. Hence the name Seminole "Hanging" pumpkins. They are supposed to have a sweet meat and store very well in the South.
My cucumbers are still producing. In fact, I put up another canner of bread & butter pickles on Friday. They are starting to yellow, so I may plant another crop for the fall.
The sunflowers are about spent. Even though I planted some Mammoth sunflowers, none got really big. I did get some pretty red crimson (red velvet?) ones. When the storms came through over a week ago, it about destroyed them all. I'll probably be pulling them sometime this week.
I'm hoping to put in a fall garden. My summer garden just didn't last that long. Our last frost was a month late, and it got so blasted hot so quick that it really wrecked havoc on some of my stuff. It was 108 degrees today with heat index of 115. Miserable.
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