Garden again

Well I counted the peaches and it looks like all told we'll get around 66 peaches this year. Pretty good for its first year fruiting. Ryan canned six jars tonight because we couldn't eat them all before they got too soft. There's another 30 or so on the tree. The blackberries are turning black and are really tart. I may freeze some of those. The grapes are turning purple. Ryan tasted one tonight but the sugar content is still pretty low. We knew it would be, but it was fun watching him eat a grape from our vines. Ryan planted the second crops of beans, peas, lettuce and carrots and planted a first crop of beets. The purple beans are still going strong.

Ryan canned another 14 jars of pickles. We opened up one of the jars from two weeks ago. It's not as dilly as he would like but they are really very tasty. I like them a lot.

So far we have a large muskmelon, about three small ones. The bunnies are eating the tips off so Ryan needs to protect those somehow. We have one honeydew melon and about six butternut squashes. There are three white pumpkins out there too. The cauliflower is growing well and think the broccoli is doing well. It's the first year we've ever done that before so we're not sure how it's going. The bugs are thick in our yard because we do the organic gardening thing. We hve a lot of cucumber beetles and some other wacky bugs I don't know the name of. They seem to appear every year. This year I saw some gigantic scarabs eating watermelon off the rind as it waited to go into the compost pile. I wanted to get a picture but when I went back out they'd gone. They were the size of quarters. Something similar to that was eating the grape leaves but luckily they went somewhere else. The pear trees are supposed to bloom this fall but I am not sure if they will since it's the first full year we'e had them. We'll see in a few weeks. Ciao for now!