Sept 26

The first picture says it all. We started picking watermelon this week. The picture is of two of them that were picked this last Wednesday. I picked another one for dinner today along with several cantaloupes and a couple of honeydews.

The tomatoes have not been watered for over thee weeks and it is starting to pay off. They are ripening at a fast pace now. We have at least another week of good weather, maybe two. This will make the difference for the melons and tomatoes.

We have started to pick the third planting of corn for supper. This Friday we will pick the remaining ears. No sign of ear worms. I have had some signs of raccoons.

The late planting of sugar snap peas are doing great. They are covered with blossoms.

The potatoes are just waiting for the vines to die down so we can dig them. Last year we did this in mid October and finished up on Halloween. I am still watering them.

Sept 20

I am almost a week late posting these pictures.

We had another light frost on the morning of Saturday, Sep 18th. It didn't do much damage, just nipped the squash and pumpkins a bit more. The weather looks good for the next week so we might get some watermelons after all.

Sept 12

I am a couple of weeks late posting these pictures.

We had a light frost Saturday morning, Sep 11th. It just nipped the tops of some of the squash plants. The cucumbers had the most damage.

The squash bugs continue to do their damage.

Sept 5

The neighbours harvested the second planting of corn yesterday. Very few ear worms on this planting. We had some for dinner today and it was the best corn ever.

The squash is continuing to die off due to squash bugs. I posted a picture at the bottom of this post that shows how bad it is. Most of the bugs in the picture are immature.

We have had more wind this summer then I can remember having in the 11 years that we have been here. The nice thing about the drip is that I can water even if it is windy. The irrigation water amount is down to about 6000 gallons a day. I need to take advantage of every gallon.

I dug some Yukon Gold potatoes for dinner today and they were near perfect. The vines of all the potatoes are dying off. I noticed that they were starting to dig spuds in Idaho this week when I was up there on Thursday. This seems early and I will try to hold off until October if I can to dig ours.

The honeydew melons look to be almost ripe and the small tentacle vine on the watermelons are starting to dry up. I have several watermelons that are in the 20 lbs range. This is a complete turn around from last year.

The tomatoes are still green. They have not had water for a week now and they don't seem to mind one bit.