What's Growing?

    Some one has decided one of the empty potato boxes makes a nice front porch for their home and dug an entrance.  A chipmunk?  Haven't seen anything use it but we haven't been sitting outside much lately.

    Jeff calls this tomato a 'volunteer' because it just appeared in a box one day in with other plants.  He transplanted it to this corner and it took off.  Currently there are 2 tomatoes and about 6 other flowers.  Hope they all mature before the season ends.  We decided not to plant tomatoes this year after losing most of our crop to blight the last 2 years.  Maybe our luck has changed?!?

    These are super hot Ghost Peppers that Jeff planted to use for bug spray and to dehydrate and crush to use as a garnish.  They have to change color before we can pick them...supposedly turning red.  Exactly where we'll run the dehydrator when these are in it is still being discussed.  The garage is one possibility...just not in the house! 
    Jeff's had great success this year with other peppers, too ...sweet frying peppers, long Italian hots, bell pepper (green and purple) that we've
enjoyed eating ourselves and sharing with others.
He wants to dehydrate some of these, too, if there are any left.  Last night's supper included
fried peppers and potatoes with leaks and garlic all from our garden.

    You just can't beat how great fresh pick veggies taste! Our sweet corn has proven that hands down...even if the ears aren't that big!  In fact, the ears are good size but something clipped the silk and the nibs don't fill out along the top 1-2" of the ear.  So we've been eating 2 mini ears instead of 1 full ear.  Taste good anyway!  
   The eggplant is still flowering...we've picked one, and the butternut is spreading out like crazy...starting in a box and running all over between boxes...and getting big.  Jeff keeps wondering what the crops will be like if he ever gets the pH right. 

   The watermelon...we think...has finally started to form.  Not very big but if they ripen that's ok.  Jeff found 2 today. But they're not in the boxes but running in the rows between them all over the garden!  Still no cantaloupes.  Most of the squash is running around, too.  As long as they produce who cares where they are...not me!

(Watermelon photos added 5:57pm 8/30/15)

    And just when you think Jeff is spending all his time in the garden here's proof he's still hitching up the trailer and bringing home pallets that he's cutting apart.  Soon these will be ready for me to start stacking in the woodshed.  Unfortunately, this is only 1/3 of what we'll burn this winter...but the more wood we burn the less oil we use.