Successive Obsessive

[digitS']

Sorry about the darkness of the photo. It kind of reflects our smoke-filled neighborhoods, houses, cars, clothing ... The yellow zucchini isn't sunscalded. The strange light was all we had yesterday afternoon.

Harvesting sweet onions and broccoli began in July. The squash and zucchini transplants went in, right in the middle of the beds. The broccoli was in a bit of a holding pattern but is gone now. The onions closest to the cucumbers were pulled first. None remain that aren't now flat on the ground -- meanwhile, the cucumber vines are merrily trailing off the beds.

Steve

 

[Carol Dee]

Nice squash. I have given away 4X what we can use. Even freezing some! Planted too many? Bumper crop?
We had light like that one day due to fires in Canada! Scary yours are closer. Hope they are out soon.

 

[digitS']

Of course, I can exchange some of mine for legal tender, Carol Dee.

I have an enormous number of cukes right now. So, these Talladega and Munchers are arriving too early; assuming the earlier vines play out in September.

I messed up my own zucchini with the irrigation malfunctions - missed watering for nearly a week during that record-breaking June heat. Those plants didn't die but were attacked by squash beetles. All the squash plants have some mildew. Anyway, the writing is on the wall for how long the messed-up zuks can produce.

Steve

 

[digitS']

The early zucchini didn't last very long. All the zucchini and cukes (& melons) were burnt to the ground or nearly, by the September frosts.

Less so in the little veggie garden where some of the late-planted zucchini are protected by spruce trees. Unfortunately, that puts them in quite a bit of shade. Mildew runs rampant! My scheme for dodging mildew with late-planting has gone off the rails! Oh well. They could be as dead as their frosted neighbors.

Keeping me a little happy are the peas on that potato bed. Obviously, I should have sown more of that seed!

this was about a week ago and pea pods are now coming off those few vines.

Steve

 

[digitS']

This is the time of year when, if I'm lucky with frost, I have both green beans and peas. I haven't learned how to take full advantage of this ...

ツ Steve

 

[ninnymary]

I LOVE sugar snap peas! I'm so jealous. I feel like it's almost November and I still haven't planted peas. Thought I would get starts this weekend but now it looks like I might be out of town.

Mary