The tomatoes are late and so is this. Spent yesterday running around- my daughter had her cast taken off. She's recovered from her emergency surgery. I'm hoping the rest of her summer is less eventful.

We have been having a lot of afternoon thunderstorms which saved me watering, but put me behind in weeding. Pulled the cauliflowers that were weird and planted some lettuce I had started. Two weeks ago I dumped the rest of the low germinating brussels sprouts seeds in a flat and got a few plants. Just need to find a good spot for them. Hopefully I'll get some sprouts by the first frost around Thanksgiving.

The tomatoes are beginning to take off. I've tied the sprawling ones to the overhead wire. I have tunnels of sheets of cement re=inforcing wire, but since I have an extra 5'X20' bed of tomatoes, I bought two more sheets and laid them flat on 3' high stakes. The 5'X10' sheets went from $9. to $13. since last year, but I expect them to last a long time.

Cukes and squash began to bloom. Need to see if there are enough bees out when the female flowers show up. Haven't been paying enough attention. I'm looking forward to pulling weeds later if the weather stays clear. The rain softened the ground and I love the peacefulness of weeding. Won't have that when vacation ends in a few weeks.

If we actually had a few days of hot, sunny, dog-days-of-August weather...I'd be afraid, very afraid of what my garden would push out

Picked 25# of Zucchini & Squash today, plus 5# of Potatoes. Did some mix 'n match keeping a few of the nicer zukes & yellow squash for dinner tonite at my sisters, but together with some squash in the fridge from Saturday's pickins' I donated 30# to the food pantry this morning That surprised me, it's like twice as much as last week!

Another way to put it, I've been weighing all my major harvests...I'm now up to 131# for the season weighed, so I picked 1/3rd as much as I had previously picked today alone. Probably I've taken a good 20# out of the garden I have weighed.

I have some "four pound" tomatoes...well, big anyway...that should get picked this evening, but I'm not sure if they have blossom end rot or not. They where seeming a little iffy on Monday to me whether the scar on them was just a little piffle of a problem easily cut around, or if I would lose the fruit by the time it was ripe. We'll know soon...gotta go pick some taters and maybe maters for tonite's dinner!

Not much that I can report but at least I got my first tomato today (a sweet 100) and there are lots of green ones for the future. There are some green early girls and a few green big boys too.

We still don't have any pumpkins or squash that have set fruit yet. I don't know if we will even get any this year. All I can do now is keep my fingers crossed.

This year is just wierd. We planted a watermelon plant for the first time, and it has many flowers, but no fruits yet. The jalepenos, which usually do well have no flowers and no fruits. The tomatoes are finally going gangbusters, but not too many red yet, and the bell pepper plants are full of peppers and they usually do zilch. The banana peppers aren't showing anything yet either which is not normal. Carrots and onions look like they are half as big as they should be and the zuchinni has given me one. Eggplant is hanging around lazily not producing and cucumbers are full of flowers but nothing else. Only thing looking as it should is the basil. Thank goodness for that!

On a lighter note, a very busy neighbor who has very little free time told me to dig whatever flowers I want out of a very long 5 foot wide bed because she wants it gone. I was able to get some coneflowers, mums and daisies for my front bed and have enough to take some to ds and dil who are trying to add a little curb appeal. I love busy people!