An Update on the Garden

It's been so hot the last week or so! It's wearing me down and making me not feel well. I'm feeling wilted. With each passing day, I pray that the heat will break. Along with the heat, it's been humid by our standards. It all makes for a lot of discomfort! As I write this, it is pouring outside......bring it on! Maybe it'll help the humidity level. We have had very little rain, up until this point, and this is pleasant. I am sooooo ready for Autumn!!

In the midst of it all, the garden is doing really well! It evidently likes this weather much more than I do!! Yesterday, I harvested the very first cucumber and zucchini. We grilled the zucchini on the BBQ last night......yummy!!

Just a few minutes ago, during a break in the rain, I went outside and took some pictures of the garden. I enjoy documenting it's growth!

Standing on the front steps of the house, looking out to the street.


This one was taken from the street, looking back at the house. You can see the honeysuckle growing on the fence in the foreground.


Our Russian Sage plant, up close. We planted this in the garden area years ago because it brings bees to the garden.


Here is our wonderfully silly Lacey! Whenever she goes outside with us, she immediately runs off to find her frisbee and flops herself down in the grass with it. She then sits patiently, hoping that someone might notice that she really wants to play!! She is our love and a joy to have as part of our family!


May I introduce you to our version of "Cousin It"!! This is a silver lace vine, that is several years old now. We cut it back to the ground every Autumn, and it grows faster than anything else I've ever seen! It far overtakes the trellis it's on, before our eyes every summer!!


And here are our two rows of corn! Silly, I know, considering the fact that it's grown commercially for miles all around us!! But we started to add it to our garden when James was very young, so that he could watch it grow. And we really enjoy being able to pick it and put it right on the grill.....there's nothing better!! It's doing well this year, being "knee high by the 4th of July"! We are looking forward to being able to add it to our menu, along with the tomatos, in the next few weeks!!


And so we grow! It won't be long before we're in "harvest mode".....picking, preparing and freezing the garden foods as fast as we can! I don't "can", but we do pack our freezer full with diced tomatos, and blanched corn. There is nothing better than being able to pull a bag of our "Olathe Sweet" sweet corn out of the freezer and add it to our Christmas meal menu!!!