HOW YOU GONNA KEEP EM DOWN ON THE FARM

All's quiet on the home front this weekend. Hubby's gone and had the place to myself. Thought I'd show you my garden. It is just about kaput for the season. Corn has produced with a few rows of vegetables left to gather.

The watermelon has taken over and is climbing over everything. Supposedly, you need lots of heat and dry weather to produce a sweet melon. We'll just see.

Here is one of the little gobbits. (I made that word up for those of you inclined to look it up.)

This is corn I grew from some seed my daughter bought from the Cherokee Nation. It is the progeny from corn brought by the Cherokee Indians on the Trail of Tears. I have had to cover some of the corn cobs with netting to keep out the varmints though not the #^*@ corn worms. I do hate to spray insecticides on anything we eat. I did try a nibble and it wasn't like the sweet corn I grow for us to eat. It wasn't sweet and was very starchy and the kernels were tough. I guess it would probably be good for drying and making masa or corn meal for cakes and/or bread etc.

Good Grief! I am growing the Great Pumpkin this year. I bought some Dill's Atlantic Giant pumpkin seeds. They say pumpkins take a lot from the soil; they are heavy feeders and need lots of nutrients. So, I planted mine in the compost pile. We'll just see who grows a big one this year. I've seen growers that carve out the huge behemoths and sail in them in a regatta they have each year. Somewhere in the northeast. I don't know why they are able to grow them so big up there. Just like Martha Stewart's puffball fungi that gets the size of soccer balls. In a week or so, I'll carve my granddaughter's name on it. It will scab over and as it grows, so too will the name.


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