Time to play catch up

 It's so interesting how each summer is different. Last year was a year for a lot of pictures and blog posting. This year not so much. This year was a year of the irrigation main breaking three different times and finally staying fixed after that. The year of racing to get the garden in. The year of the garage still isn't built but getting much closer, and the year that my grandson turned six (just last Friday).

 We got a good number of strawberries this year, just waiting to make strawberry shortcake with them.

 This is a volunteer plant which means that I didn't plant it, not purposely anyway. It started growing on it's own in the same place where I had my acorn squash last year. It's impossible to tell what it is right now but it could be anything from, New England pie pumpkin, Connecticut field pumpkin, Jack O Lantern pumpkin or Acorn squash.

 I decided to go all out on peppers this year because I suck at growing them. As you can see however I've been able to do very well. I have 22 pepper plants and nearly all of them have at least one pepper growing. I have grown everything with out the help of any fertilizer from the store because I want to know how to do it. This is a product of chicken manure, fireplace ash, and bone meal (I could use egg shells also but it's more of a pain in the rear).

Little baby pepper here.

Continuing on, this is why I love living in a small unincorporated town. The fourth of July parades are the best.

More to come later.