End of August Round Up

Last night we ventured off to Food Matters for a beer tasting dinner that was very good indeed.  The man is off at the grocery store right now to grab some grub for tomorrow.  Friends are coming over and we will be grilling the afternoon away.

I think my grapes are ready, but I'm not sure.  I don't have the time to pick them right now (which really means process them) and the birds have been snacking away out there because we forgot to put the bird netting up.  So I will see how this week progresses.  This is last year's haul.  I do have to say the weather this year has been much better for the grapes.  Last year there was uneven ripening and this year, not so much!

While I was out in the garden contracting the West Nile I stumbled across a baby zucchini. 

It's like the fourth one this year!  The darn zucchini plants are producing oodles of flowers, but they're just male flowers that die and drop off leaving an empty stem jutting into the air as though some critter came snacking in the night.

The garden has been very good at producing cucumbers this year. 

They've creeped all over the place, this cucumber plant grew up into the tomato box and this poor cucumber is suspended amongst the mostly dead tomatoes (blight? over fertilizing? not enough water?) and grew into my anti-squirrel "system".  Whoops.

The purple pole beans may be dying back now, but the green pole beans that I planted at the same time as the purple beans are just now finally starting to produce flowers and beans.

I think I have a pumpkin growing!  Look at this baby!

And finally away from the garden, here's a cute cat shot. 

Ginger hated the bell but she put up with it long enough for me to take a cute picture of her and when I removed it I was promptly swatted at.

Comments

[Bea]

Wow your pumpkin is getting large. The over abundance of cucumbers and only male zucchini flowers made me laugh.

Your cat is cute, if pissed.

[Chris]

Funny how gardens grow. My cucumbers started out strong then the vines all died, but my tomatoes are producing tons. Not so much anything else. All my melons died, too. Pout.

[Mr Man]

"The darn zucchini plants are producing oodles of flowers, but they're just male flowers"...

So my back yard is a now a gay bar. Awesome.