Heat AND Squash Bugs???

Sheesh!  There ought to be a law against TONS of HEAT while dealing with TONS of SQUASH BUGS!!! Ugh!!  Or, they should automatically drop dead when it gets hotter than 100 degrees!  We would be squash bug-free!!!  Oh well.  We'll keep working at it!!

We had a great get together Tuesday evening and got corn, squash, onions, and broccoli planted- thank you to those who came and helped! Our next garden party will be on August 11th at 7pm. We will be planting the lettuce, carrots, peas, and onions. We are in need of donations for seeds.  If you have an extra few dollars, please Venmo me at #patrice-hunt-1  

Ashley will take the money to buy seeds at Kirklands in the next week or two.  THANK YOU!!!

In the meantime, the pumpkins are ready to pick! Please come pick a pumpkin for your family.  They will stay good until Halloween, or you can cook them and make pumpkin pie now!  *_*

There are also onions ready to pick to use. The green peppers are coming along nicely.

Heating Up and then some...

 Here are a few pictures from the past couple of weeks!  The squash bugs seem to be winning the war!!  YIKES!!  The tomato plants have had a lot of trouble with viruses!  And of course, rain has not been around much!!  We sure could use some!!  Thanks for the pics Ashley!!

 

  

  

  

  

  

Passing the Baton...and then some!

 This past couple of weeks has been a whirlwind of activity in preparation for Rod and I to be gone for 18 months (serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...Texas-Dallas East Mission as Self-Reliance Service Missionaries).  So grateful for Ashley Adams taking the helm and keeping the garden going with the help of everyone already involved!!  It's a big job, but easy when there are so many willing helpers!  Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!

This morning we had several youngsters come to learn about the garden and helped with a lot of things.  A small turtle was even spotted and we enjoyed saying hello.

Beets, onions, squash and zucchini all needed picking.  The watermelon, cucumbers and pumpkin plants are growing well.  Some of the tomato plants look like they're struggling but others are doing well with lots of green tomatoes.  It's looking to be like a hot summer, so the garden should thrive!!

 

 

Gambling in the Garden...

 Planting 40 tomato plants towards the end of March was a gamble.  Since I don't have much experience with playing cards I'm not sure what the term is when you lose some, but not all.  So I'll simply say we're still in the game, although we had to replace 30 plants!!

Everything is coming up extremely well!!  Even the peanuts!!  One more month and the garden should be full of green!!  As it is we have beautiful starts of cucumber, cantaloupe, watermelon, zucchini, squash, beets, peas, onions, and peanuts.  Kalvin dug the bowls for our pumpkin crop and got them planted.  So excited to see how everything turns out!!