LOL 1st BIG Zuke!!

[Whitewater]

Ok, so with all this heat around here I have kind of let my garden go and grow as it wants to, because really, there was nothing growing that I knew needed daily attention, and with the 1/2" -1" of rain we've been getting every 72 hours or thereabouts, I knew I didn't have to water either.

Unfortunately I forgot about my zucchini!!! LOL!

I went out there today and I found two big ones, oops. 1 is still probably ok for stuffing if I wanted to eat it, but the other one, there's no hope, it will easily make 2 full-sized loaves of zucchini bread. Guess I know what I'll be doing this weekend when the heat wave breaks! Between these two big 'uns, we'll have plenty of bread to eat, freeze, and give away.

That's ok, zuke bread is easy and fairly cheap.

Moral of the story . . . if you ever start wondering why your squash plants suddenly stop producing, check for the monster you missed!




Whitewater (PS we also got our 1st dozen of beans today! Moral of *that* story: A Trellis has TWO sides, check them both!)

 

[vfem]

Those over size ones usually end up chicken food!

 

[Whitewater]

Not mine, my 3 HATE squash. hate, hate hate.

They're wierd like that. Also my Black Sex Link lays within the same 30 minute time frame every day, sometime between 11:30 and noon. Obviously she's never read the laying hen guide that says you're supposed to lay eggs progressively later in the day! LOL! But at least she's laying in this heat, the other two birds -- both Australorps -- well, one isn't laying at all, and the other one was laying soft shelled mistakes before the heatwave, and now we aren't even finding soft-shelled eggs lying around.

Can't wait until the heat breaks and more than one chicken gives us eggs! That's why we have them, after all!


Whitewater

 

[sparkles2307]

my chooks like yellow zukes.

I have had 2 get too big now, but in spite of the stupid skeeters I have been pretty attentive to the squash jungle. The rest of the garden??? notsomuch. The pease actually dried down on the vines because I couldnt get them picked with the mosquitoes in my eyes...at least I have seed for next year...

 

[Whitewater]

We haven't been bothered that badly by the 'state bird', not sure why as we have standing water out for the dogs in the yard . . .maybe the cicadas are getting all the larva or something, we've got plenty of those!!!

I don't know if my beans are going to be good to eat, some of them are HUGE 'cause like I said, I forgot to look on the other side of the fence, LOL.

I guess we'll find out!


Whitewater

 

[hoodat]

If beans get too big and fibrous for green beans you can always shell them out and use them as "shelly beans". Those are great for succotash.