First Harvest

Already running out of uses for zucchini. 4 plants, 2 people...sounds reasonable, right? Our zucchini count is up above 50 already. Peppers are doing wonderfully, despite the dry weather. Tomatoes are just beginning to redden up, if we can keep Kaelyn from picking them off the vines... The cucumbers appear to be the only casualty of the 'drought', they are growing and producing, but we haven't picked a single one that isn't horribly bitter. The pigs and poultry are eating well!

14 pounds of blueberries and counting...OK so they aren't all from here. OK, a few of them are from here. OK, five of them are from my plants. We try, we try. My blueberry bushes look like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree...after the needles fell off. This is our second go-round on blueberries, on paper we do everything right, yet our plants resemble the roped off 'sick' ones at the berry patch that no one dares pick. Thank goodness for local growers with actual skill, we use Chance Creek Blues, an organic farm near Oberlin.

Is this the big one? After a day spent weed-whacking we uncovered our developing melons in the field.

Cute, but no clue what I planted or what these are...

A cantaloupe! My very first! Maybe it will ripen to coincide with the porkies...hmmmm

Decorative gourds

Again, not sure. Probably a pumpkin?