Late August Veg Explosion

Pretty Much Every Day This Week

Bumper crop this year. The rain has diminished, but still enough to avoid watering. So the plants are taking care of themselves. 

The raspberry patch, even after I cut it back from the neighbor's fence, is going to be massive next year. And to think, a few short years ago it was four canes.

So far, we have been able to share or consume all of the garden's output, but we are right at the edge...So many tomatoes. Though this may be short lived. The tomato plants have had a lot of rot, despite my attempts to cut them back and treat them. We've lost several of them already, and I'm not sure how long those that remain will last. 

We have a massive glut of jalapeno peppers. I've been pickling the banana peppers, but the jalapenos are...well, typically recipes only call for one or two. When you take in 10 in a day, it is sort of overwhelming. We did make a delicious tomato, onion, lime & jalapeno salsa yesterday. 

We've had some of the best weather of summer over the last week. We should know, because instead of vacationing in the north woods as was our plan, we had to spend $1,300 to get our poor cat Zipper some badly needed oral surgery, and then spend the week with him feeding him narcotics. It is probably just as well, as our kitten, the redoubtable Poppy, is probably too young to leave for 4 days and 3 nights as we'd planned.

Zipper, top, Poppy, bottom there in the shadow

August may not be the best time to schedule a vacation next year. Something to note.

Can't leave end of June - strawberries. Can't leave starting in August because of tomatoes & zucchini & beets & peppers.