The new plants are comming up on starting production. So I don't think the old stressed plants are worth bothering saving. I am glad I have plenty of plants as I want plenty of squash!

Oh and not to foreget that of the new plants that look great, some did get borers and had to be injected. But those were caught much more earlier in the process of infestation and damage. Really I am just learning as I go.

I thought you just planted squash and got fruit. Learning you have to work at it.

Yeah, I'm having that too, tomatoes and squash. Had a couple of peppers rot on the stems. Just too wet. Having lots of tomatoes rot on the vine too. Probably twice as many as we have good ones. If I hadn't already let it go I could easily get depressed. All I can say is I sure am enjoying what few tomatoes we are getting! customers will ask, "do you have any tomatoes?" And I will smile and say, "sorry, I ATE THEM ALL MYSELF."

I think that is because I have always read that zucchini are easy to grow just about fool proof plants for a beginning gardener. Boy is that wrong. Really prone to powdery mildew, at least in our climate. Then there are those darn SVB.

Arlene, you poor customers! I am sure they will be wanting tomatoes!

Sideyard today. Tomato plants are taking over the world!

Ooooh, so lush! Everything looks good!

I guess for us with all this rain we should expect problems. Some days I get so disgusted but most of the time I just say, "next time."

I am really going to cut back my flowers next year. It took me two hours to pick daisies and I didn't even cut them all. After making 36 bouquets I still had two buckets full of daisies! So when things slow down (winter) I am going to rethink my perennial flowers and reduce the number of each kind. I'll still keep all the varieties , just fewer of each kind.

I still haven't started my cauliflower and broccoli for fall. Besides not having the time yet I am thinking I don't want to do market that late into the fall/winter. I am supposed to go to Michigan to visit family again but this time I want to go for two weeks. My mother is 86 so I need to be able to spend some time with her, don't know how much more I will have especially with only once or twice a year visits. Ideally I would go no later than end of September so I could take Jennifer any perennials she may want and she would still have time to get them into the ground. I guess I could just skip market for two weeks. I just don't know what to do.

If I don't get it planted, come late Sept., Oct. I will be wishing I had planted it!

Well, I didn't start anything new yet for fall either. Might not do anything new either. Still want to get my turnips in though.

I don't know how you manage all that you do for market. It has to be way too much work.

It is! And I'm getting tired. I love doing it but I think I bit off a bit more than I can chew.

I just pulled some turnips I planted early spring. Nice size but the tops are almost absent, full of holes! I'll plant more for fall as well as some parsnips, more carrots and beets. But you know my carrots and beets just don't seem to be growing! We have been selling baby bunches. Started because I was thinning but now some should have gotten bigger, especially with the rain. It's always something!

But baby must be extra gourmet, right?

Cucumbers! Picked lots of cucumbers today.

Okra growing and I hope soon the flowers will come.



Beantowers doing well.



Classic eggplants have that typical supermarket eggplant look. They are setting some fruits but I don't feel these are terriffic productive.




Eggplants in general look good.



This fruit is on Purple Rain



Sweet Million tomatoes have been producing ripe fruit every day.


Lots of green tomatoes on the tomato plants.





More melons setting every day and getting bigger so as I notice them.

Cucumbers look terrific! Yummy!

I eat many cucumbers in the summer while mine are producing and never buy any at the supermarket the rest of the year. My favorite summer lunch is a nice cucumber and tomato salad.

Arlene, Did you sell all your daisies at Market today? I know you were saying you had an aweful lot of them.

We sold all of our cucumbers. People LOVE the little white ones! We eat a lot too but not THAT MANY!

No, I didn't sell all the daisies. I still have a bucket full of them. But several people made their own bouquets and used just daisies. Not sure what I will do with them. I'll probably end up just throwing them out. But we had about 10 bouquets left so we took them to the local restaurant and donated them for them to put on the tables. We're still trying to hook up with a nursing home. I know the residents would love to have fresh flowers. Maybe next week.

Busy day at market because they had a tomato tasting contest so there were a ton of people. We donated Brandywine Yellow and Limbaugh's Legacy. Just not enough tomatoes to give many more. We did manage to sell a few today and even a few "seconds." Over $150 in flowers and we sold out of honey!

Sounds as if in spite of having daisies left, it was still a good day at market.

Best day this year so far. Also, since we harvested a lot on Thurs. instead of trying to do it all on Fri., then make bouquets, I think we weren't nearly as tired. But we're tired now! DH is snoozing away. He works so hard. He'll be 80 soon...so hard to believe!

I remember you posting a picture of you both at market one time some weeks back. Hubby sure didn't look old to me. And you must be way younger than he is then.

He doesn't show his age and neither do I (even though we certainly sometimes FEEL it BUT I am a tad younger too...gonna sign up for SS this year!

Heck, we all feel old sometimes!