Late summer garden

As things wind down, the coneflowers and phlox reach their glory. The late summer blooms brighten the garden while the asters and goldenrod edge the woods. Each day, I gather up another few handfuls of tomatoes, pick one more zucchini or eggplant, and watch the butternut squash ripen to a pale tan.

Our First Ever Onions!

Yesterday, we picked our first batch of onions! The old tree made a great drying rack.

What's in the harvest?

After the deer trampled and munches their way through the tomatoes, beets, potatoes, cucumbers, and squash, I figured I better salvage what I can. They kindly left the root vegetables (ate the tops of the beets and potatoes), but destroyed the New Girl tomato crop. I wonder why they didn't chomp on the corn? I froze over 8 pounds of the sweet stuff! Next, harvest all the potatoes before they churn them up out of the ground!