Ripe, ready, and ...

Wet.  Gathering squash might have been on the docket for today, except that it rained all morning at market and all afternoon, too.   Now there's puddles and mud all through the pumpkin patch.  Maybe this week it will dry off.  

Getting ripe!

Still puddles in pumpkins

Rain overnight and this morning have topped off the puddles in the pumpkins.  Even with this wet weather we have a few plants producing.  Maybe they will ripen by October.

Nevermind!

After 0.6 inches last evening lake pumpkin is back.

Drying off

The puddle in the pumpkins is no more!  The plants that did not drown are vining across the rows.  Mom said today she did NOT wear boots to pick zucchini. 

All the rain did make some great corn, and we are starting to have some of everything, including a few tomatoes and peppers.

More rain!

The rain continues.  Over 2.5" so far.  Good for the corn, but maybe we should have planted rice here instead of pumpkins. 

Summer fields

Blue skies...a welcome sight in this rainy season.

Tomatoes, 2000 of them, with 1000 stakes and first string.
Solar-powered electric fence (foreground) keeps out deer.

Sweet corn much taller then "knee-high by the Fourth of July!" 

Puddles make it difficult to harvest summer squash.
Make a tasty, colorful medley using 10 varieties.

Pepper patch with a few skinny yellow hot bananas. 

Cool weather crops on white mulch,
to provide cooler soil, conserve moisture and grow cleaner produce. 

We are harvesting Lettuce II now.
These 2 rows of Lettuce III will be ready soon. 

Candy onions love these warm rainy days.

Broccoli (foreground) coming soon!