Today is the first day of Autumn and we have a record-breaking 96 degrees for our temperature. I watered the strawberries, and all the potted herbs and flowers. We have harvested the rest of the carrots, and the cucumbers. We had so many cucumbers that I took yet another bushel, literally, down to the corner and put them in a box marked "Free Lemon Cukes" and within hours they disappeared. That's twice I've done that now. I put them next to the corn stand down there. If I liked pickled cucumbers I'd do that, but I have enough and to spare here. We still have many tomatoes on our 3 plants-- the one we brought from Esther's house, that is in a pot, is not doing as much. It's probably because we used fertilizer and she used her coffee ground water. Yuck. We had about two big bucket loads get ripe all at once so I made salsa yesterday.
With three of the garden boxes empty now, I have fertilized and am going to plant our winter garden tomorrow. I don't think the seeds will sprout if it's too hot, so I guess I'll watch the weather first.
Now, how to get Jerry to build two more boxes for next year. At least he has all winter to work up to it, we won't need them until spring.
2 comments:
I am so glad you were able to have a garden this summer. I wish I was there to take some of that off your hands! Save some salsa for me. Your flowers are beautiful! Are those Dahlias?
How did the salsa turn out?
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