I’m late on my good day/bad day squash report. I went out of town last Friday and didn’t get back until yesterday evening. Bro asked me to dig up a mess of potatoes so he could cook up green beans and potatoes to take to the church tomorrow because a friend of my cousin had passed away and the funeral will be tomorrow… so I got out this morning and headed out with my camera.
The first stop was to the former playhouse where we keep the garden tools. I opened the door and I was immediately hit behind my ear by a wasp, a yellow jacket. It still is feeling like someone hit me with a needle full of cayenne pepper but I got the wasp spray and got my revenge and because I needed to get potatoes and take photos I grabbed my cultivator and got down to business.
First off, the potatoes…
You know me… I have to give you something for a size comparison so after I washed some of the dirt off they were ready for their photo op. My Crocs are about the equivalent of a women’s size nine shoe.
This shot I wanted to put in to show you how beautifully thin skinned these red potatoes are and all that was done was a light wash to get the dirt off. Makes my mouth water just looking at these.
Now to the good day/bad day squash…
Good day squash is on the left and bad day squash is on the right.
From north looking to south now so you can see the littlest bad day squash and the bigger bad day squash on the left and the good day on the right.
This is the littlest bad day squash. It’s hanging in there but it is way smaller than all the rest but I must tell you that even though it is tiny the leaves are looking healthy.
This is the bigger of the bad day squash. You can see a couple of photos back how much bigger the good day squash is now.
Here is the first bloom on the good day squash. The leaves are huge and the plants, the four good day squash that came up, are so healthy looking. The broken stem there on the right was done when the storms came rolling through Monday night.
Just a few more general garden shots now…
The two rows in the middle, the left one is alternating okra and black eyed peas. The right one is okra. To the right of them are some squash and zucchini that were plants already when we planted them. We’ve gotten several messes of yellow squash and while the zuchs were planted later and we haven’t gotten any off them yet there are a bunch of blooms and young zuchs going now.
We are going to be begging people to take tomatoes if they keep on like they are going. We planted 15 plants of several varieties and the plants are full and big, almost growing together, and they have a bunch of blooms on them.
Here’s another shot where I tried to just shoot looking down between the rows.
Another view of the tomato jungle looking from north to the south.
This is the backyard garden. The plants in front are the broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower that are all on their way out.
Here is one of the cabbage that is still growing. You kind of get the idea of size with Spud, the Jack Russell, standing there checking for mice.
This is the potato bed that I raided for potatoes earlier. We also planted potatoes in the bigger front garden but we planted them about three weeks after we put these in and so these are the plants we’ve been raiding for the past week or two.
And to wind up this post I have to put in a picture of the yellow daylily that you can see at the back of the above photo. It is one of the daylillies that I transported from the garden in Noble and I’m so glad to see them starting to bloom.
This is one of my favorites. I love the clear buttery yellow and this daylily is just that… no golden yellow hues to it, just the very clean clear yellow.
This concludes the second good day/bad day squash report. I’ll try not to be so long for the next post. I had to put off the mimosa blooms and the bad hair post because I needed to show the good day/bad day squash report so I will try to get it posted in the next couple of days.
By the way, does anyone have a good home fix for wasp stings? I still have this awful pain in my head…
