Watch that corn GROW!!!

The corn was planted one month ago, and just LOOK at it!!!  It's beautiful!!  And the peanut beds are "not one whit behind" the corn in beauty and growth!

Now the last planting of squash plants was a totally different story...and I just barely figured out what the problem was!  I'm not sure where my mind has been all summer, but for some reason I didn't even THINK about how we were watering the squash.  Let's just say, squash plants were never meant to be SWIMMERS!!  And we about drowned them this year.  Maybe next year our last planting will be as good as our first!!

We're always learning something new in the garden!

                                              "Oooooh, tomatoes!!"

The second planting of green beans that Alice Steel's grandkids planted last week are coming up great!!  Good job, kids!!

HOW LONG IS OUR GROWING SEASON???

We really can grow things in Santa Clara...and for a very long growing season, too!!

With lots of help, we pulled a couple of beds of squash that had seen it's last days of production, cleaned out a LOT of weeds from beds and walkways...and we planted 1-1/2 beds of beets, (our carrot bed is sprouting new carrots that were planted a couple of weeks ago!), we planted a small second planting of green beans in the back tomato bed thanks to Alice Steel and several of her grandchildren!, we planted potatoes in the recently-cleaned-out cucumber bed, we planted broccoli and cauliflower beds, AND we planted some lettuce in the almost-empty onion bed!

What a great place to live!!  An amazing growing season, and WONDERFUL people to work with in the garden!!  What could be better???  Wellllll, maybe if there was an ocean on the other side of Ivins....

Enjoy the pictures!!

Pulling and planting...

We pulled more dead and dying squash plants, making room for green beans, carrots and beets!  LOVE our growing season here in southern Utah!!