Lots of rain outside and a big project we were working on inside that maybe we'll share with you a little later this week. It's the first day of summer, and we haven't really talked a whole lot about the garden this year. We've harvested so many yellow squash and zucchini that we were having trouble eating it and giving it all away. We cooked and froze a lot of it in casserole dishes that we enjoy. It'll make easy meals to just warm up.
The cucumbers have been coming in and we're eating cucumber and tomato salad every day. The corn has come in and we have blanched and frozen lots of it as well as eaten corn on the cob. So Sweet! For Father's Day today we had corn maque choux - a favorite side dish for me! Snap Beans. What a crop of snap beans we had this year. With the heat they were just about finished so I harvested one more time and then clipped the plants off at ground level and fed to the bull. He liked 'em.
The tomatoes are still coming in. I've been picking them when they are just blushed a little and let them ripen indoors. The stink bugs and leaf-footed bugs are thwarted by this and don't have a chance to severely damage the tomatoes. In the next couple of days, we'll likely put up some jars of salsa as we have a number of baskets of tomatoes building up in our ice box.
I planted the same old varieties we always plant: Black Krim, Cherokee Purple, Creole, Chadwick Cherry, Black Vernissage, Rainbow, Pink Brandywine, Campari and several others.
The cherry tomatoes are prolific producers and we always freeze great big bags of these that we cook with all year long. They just keep coming in. Pretty soon, though, the tomatoes will play out. I'll take a short break and then plant more for the fall crop of tomatoes.
I always make the comment that I like to grow things that we can eat; however, since we've gotten into beekeeping, I've found myself planting flowers in the garden in the side yard near the six boxes of bees. Just to the east of the rows of Ozark Razorback Peas and Purple Hull Peas, we have a row of mixed zinnias. They are pretty, I must say. Tricia picked a bouquet and made a nice centerpiece on the dinner table.
The zinnias are attracting the honeybees, but they aren't the only ones attracted to the vibrant colors!
What a nice papillon!
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