Picked small tomatoes again, you know the Juliet Grape tomatoes and the Sweet Million Cherry tomatoes. Also had a nice batch of various eggplants. And the usual glut of cucumbers. Nothing wasted though. I was able to give away the excess cucumbers and eggplants.

I did see two female blossoms on my squashes today. Along with the usual tons of male blossoms.

Was looking at my late planted or second season cucumbers and they are just loaded with smaller cucumbers. Of course getting bigger ever day. Most of these are not on a trellis, which is unusual for me. Well, about 40% trellised the rest left to sprawl on the ground.

I thought the mystery melon looked like a honey dew also. Woohoo!!

Did I mention I made chocolate zucchini bread with my monster zucchini...OH MY GOSH so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jen sounds yummy. I grated up some zucchini and froze it so I can make zucchini bread in the winter.

Out checking my cantaloupe and Honey Dew this morning and who's starring me through the fence? Not 1 not 2 but 12 deer. Run in the house and sprayed the entire edge line of the backyard with Egg and Garlic mix. Oh boy it smells like a dirty locker room of ripe socks out there. The deer ran away though the minute they caught the aroma.

whoa, 12!!!???

OH brother. One deer would be bad enough but 12? I don't know how you stand it!

As long as the deer are looking in I don't mind. The problem is the little spotted ones as they just duck under the rope we have temporarily up between fencing until we get the deer netting posts cemented in.

Still eating home grown cantaloupes.


While others wait on the vine to get ripe.

Used to go to Saratoga as we had a friend who had trotters & pacers....used to get Hand melons there.....nothing compares to aroma & sweetness of those cantaloupes!

The ones in the store are picked green. Once a cantaloupe is picked the sugar content is set. It does not get any higher sitting on your counter waiting to get soft enough to eat. Picked ripe home ground have the highest sugar content so therefore the sweetest taste.

wow Karen.. need the dogs to chase them away!!!

Look, look. First baby squash formed on my Safron yellow summer squash.

Rita the yellow squash are awesome this year. I've grown them in the past but this year they taste so much better, Not sure why. My second planting of yellow squash has baby squash on it already and the first batch of plants is still producing.

Can't be a lack of rain as you have been swamped in rain.

I have been getting yellow squash off my Golden Egg which has been producing most of the summer but these Safron Squashes I planted very late. We will see how they compair to the others.

I had one zucchini, no yellow......plants drowned, I think.

If anyone looses their summer squash or zucchini early in the summer they are very easily started from seed. And in the warm weather pop up and grow quickly. I am a very firm believer in replacement plants. That is what worked for me and I have had squash all summer long. In the spring I was not thinking of starting squash in July and beginning of August. But I did and it has worked well.

A day of harvest

Celeste! Just look at all thos tomatoes and cucumbers!

And that head of Cauliflower looks gynormous! What is you secret? My cauliflower dried up and never made heads!

Celeste everything looks wonderful. Love the Cauliflower!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have to put that on my list of to try and grow.