Seasons Change

The seasons are a changing....summer has been a scorcher and the farmers will be hurtin.....as for me, our garden survived for the most part...rewarding us with a plentiful abundance of tomatoes, cucumbers and sweet banana peppers, before the weeds totally took over. We had enough of all to share with our daughter and my granddaughter's friend's family. Weeds seem to grow even in a drought. They say the proof is in the pudding, I say the proof is in the picture as you can see in my before and after shots.

 

 

 

 

Before

 

 

After

 

Brian was doing a fairly good job of keeping up with the hated weeds with a rototiller for most of the summer. I even managed to get out there one day and pull them up from around the plants. They just keep fighting back....My plants were troopers for sure, they kept producing even while they were being choked to death by the evil weeds. Then finally the produce was becoming smaller and smaller and wasn't worth my time to go out amoung the weeds to pick it anymore. Not to mention I was becoming afraid that a snake would be in there and I wouldn't be able to see it with all the weeds....ewww just the thought of it....I am thankful for what we did grow which was a bunch and I was proud to be able to share with family & friends. Now all that is left is a mess that needs to be mowed down...this I have been trying to get Brian to do for a while now. He keeps telling me it will get done and I keep asking when.....and we go round in circles......my flowers are doing pretty good although they are starting to show the signs of the season changing.

 

 

as is my rose bush

 

 

I just purchased these mums to replace the zinnas that I purchased to replace the original flowers that I had in my swans at the beginning of the season. Not sure why the flowers in them don't last. I am thinking it may have something to do with the lava rocks though.

It has been a different summer, hot, dry, rain too late. Seems strange to see the corn already harvested, as they did that at the end of August, not good, not good at all. The soybeans are still in the fields but now they have all turned brown too and I don't think it will be too much longer before they do them too. October is harvest time usually, not August and September...so this year the season is a changing way too soon.....