midsummer garden

I used to think gardening was pretty much done by the end of august, but that is not true in our forever summer land. It may be hot in GA but this is one of those places that you can just keep on growing! At least if the irrigation is in place and you can make it through the droughts. This garden was planted the 4th of July weekend. All except the beets and turnips, which we put in on August 15th. They are growing quite well though. We also recently put in cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussel sprouts, last weekend. We always plant by the fazes of the moon, for we have found it more profitable. We did an experiment once to see if it really worked and we had only 10 percent come up on unfavorable times, and 5 percent of them died before producing. Then we planted in favorable conditions with 100 percent sprouting and 90 percent survival. Not bad. I think the ancients knew a thing or two.....

This is the corn. It is just about ready. The ears are in full tassel. This is dent corn, for the chickens, we planted sweet earlier in the season.



This is the squash and pumpkins. I have noticed that the bugs aren't as prevelant this time around. We have gotten so many more this harvest.


This is the other side of the field. It shows the limas and okra. They are doing so much better than earlier this summer. I think they aren't competing so much with the weeds

Here is corn ear. getting along well.


Here is an eye-spy for you. Can you find the okra?



An okra flower, in my opinion, is the prettiest of the vegetable flowers. If I was a pollinator, I would visit!



Speaking of our good bugs...here is a victorious warrior, the lone ladybug. It works so hard. And if Monsanto doesn't kill them all, maybe our future generations will know what they are too.



This is one of the pumpkins. We have 2 varieties. One is for edible seeds(hulless), and the other is for the flesh.(they are dark green). They should all be ready by about Halloween.


Lastly here are the lone survivors of our drought. They are sweet potatoes. They were planted with 50 of their closest Friends, but alas they died of thirst...These 10 made it; the hearty little guys. Now let just see if they survive the ants. I swear, there is always something, huh? We got the irrigation in before we planted the other veggies in July. These went in in June. Oh, well. You live and you learn....
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