Garden Update

The bounty.

Mint.  Spaghetti squash.  Straightneck yellow squash.  Zucchini.  Green beans.  Eggs.

One of our beds.

 A lot of green tomatoes.

Renegade pumpkins and tomatoes have sprung up all over the place.  I let a few of them grow.  We'll see soon what they turn out to be.

My biggest problem this season has been the ground squirrels.

Ground squirrels.  Grrr. (Through gritted teeth)

They nibble on the pumpkins and spaghetti squash.

Now the squirrels will eat whole zucchinis!

What the heck?

I have tried putting dog hair around and sprinkling cayenne pepper.  It seems to work for a day or so and then they are back, wrecking my plans for sneaking veggies into all our meals through the winter.  We have also tried one kind of trap that they have eluded no matter which way we set it up.

Any suggestions?

**NOTE**

This update is actually 2 weeks old.

In the last couple days we have finally started to get ripe tomatoes.  Yea!

And several pumpkins are fully orange.

I will try to post more recent pics soon.

Happy harvesting to all you farmers out there!



Autumn Red

This is Autumn Colors Week over at Poppytalk.  They have done other colors in other seasons but I thought I would jump in on this one.  It's just good creative exercise.  Focus in on colors that are happening in your everyday life.

RED

These are all tomatoes out of our garden.  We didn't get any red ones until the very end of August and we are still pulling a few off the vines now.  There has already been one cold snap.  We'll see how many more we get before the rest of the green ones become relish!

This is the Falck House.  It was built in the early 1900s.   It is built on a foundation of redwoods and has watched Woodleaf through all of its changes.  From mining town, to logging company, to camp for high school kids.  Just part of the history here.