Sigh. It's a Friday Farming post, as Friday is about over. I have photos for last week's Friday farming post, but never got around to actually posting them. Summer flies by so fast!
August has been, well, rather stressful. Working to get all of the work items taken care of, personal items attended to, and trip thoughtfully planned before we leave has just been a lot of...work. It feels like Monday through Friday has been an absolute sprint.
But in between all of the to-do lists, and the waking up at 5am with thoughts of things-to-do running through my head have been a couple of really good things. My friend Alli, the one of the the great hike, and who did the awesome pamphlet map for our wedding invites became engaged last weekend. I'm thrilled for them! But even better is that Alli and her almost fiancee Bill are visiting us for 'Cat-Griz weekend (rivalry weekend in college football, the weekend before Thanksgiving). I'm so excited to have them here!
Along the wedding lines, I had a chance to loan out my wedding shoes to my "little sister" in the sorority, Jenni, who is doing her engagement photos next week, and getting married July 7, 2012. I'm so excited to get to pass along these great shoes which are apparently now not available. It makes me happy that Jenni will get such joy out of them too.
And holy shit, did you know we're going to Europe?! Gah, I have so much to tell you :)
But let's focus on the purpose of tonight's post: Friday Farming. Because man, this yard/ garden is doing really well right now! Who in their right mind scheduled a major vacation in early September, just as all of the peppers and tomatoes were coming in? Oh... me.
First, Hydrangea. Specifically: twist and shout hydrangea. Makes me smile every time!
I mean seriously, I've only been waiting for this since, oh, March.
Um guys, I may have overplanted the garden. There are areas I can't really access because vines are going every which way and there is nowhere to step. Oops!
My gladiolus are blooming!
And the early girl tomatoes are ripening.
We've been consistiently picking early girl tomatoes off the vines for a few weeks now. They're delicious!
I think this pumpkin has evil plans. Plans to grow over the house and strangle us in our sleep. Seriously. This thing grows like 18" a day.
There is supposed to be a walkway in there, somewhere.
Winter squash!
Pumpkin! Question: I think I once read that after getting a pumpkin vine to set fruit, I should snap all of the other flowers off of the vine in order to direct all of the nutrients to the existing fruit and make it big? True? Not?
Zucchini! I see zuch bread, muffins, stir fry, etc. in our future. :)
Roma tomatoes! Wayyyyy bigger than last year's Roma's. I'm pretty certain they'll all ripen while we're in... Roma. Thankfully we have someone house/ dog sitting who can pick my tomatoes and save them for me to process.
Summer squash, some of it destined for our Saturday night pasta.
Glads!
Pepper!
More pepper!
Eggplant!
Spaghetti squash!
Sunflowers!
Gladiolus (apparently I'm really proud of these...)
Clematis on the top, sweet peas trellising up the bottom.
Front yard.
So I seriously thought these sweet peas weren't going to do much this year. They start so damn slow!
But clearly they come on late.
And man they smell good.
My Autumn Joy sedum is starting to turn pink. I think that means fall is around the corner...
Bell peppers!
Cherry Bomb bell peppers. So funny story. Wednesday night I was making salsa for an event on Thursday night, and I had a ripe Cherry bomb. I chopped it up, tossed it in the bowl. Then I chopped up a tomato and tossed it in the bowl, but a little into my mouth. HOT!!! Hot! WTF why is that tomato HOT! Ohh... these little suckers pack a punch!
Hungarian wax pepper.
Black-eyed Susans.
The herbs.
The mint (currently in my mojito).
My bee balm, which is getting powdery mildew from being directly sprayed by the water.
Bed along the driveway.
Snapdragon! Starting to bloom. Guys I grew this from seed!
Fern gully.
What's not shown: that I've harvested all of the garlic and it's in the coat closet drying. That we've got a pile of juliet tomatoes on our kitchen counter. That I'm seriously sad to be missing the best part of summer gardening while we're in Europe; everything is just about to start being prolific. That by the time we get back, it'll be well into fall. That I'm a bit scared/ intimidated by winter this year. That I want to plant evergreens by our front steps. That I can't wait to spend 17 days trapsing about with my husband.
Life, my friends, is good right now. Busy, incredibly busy, but good.
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