Merry Christmas

it has been a long time since I posted  anything  here. My old DSL was just too slow.   Now I've  moved up to Xfinity high speed internet.  If anybody sees this post let me know .

Winding Down

First noticed fall colors on October 14, and they continue to delight.  Laurie closed our market here at the farm on October 19, but we are still selling tomatoes and peppers and winter squash  at open air markets in Ambridge on Thursdays, 4 pm-dusk and in Beaver on Saturdays, 10am-1pm.  Produce available from other growers...apples, potatoes, red and green cabbage, kale, turnips, rutabagas, parsnips, radishes and more!  Tomorrow, October 28, is our last day in Coraopolis, 3:30 pm-dusk.
 

Much of Monday's market was T-shirt weather.  We had a special helper, our 5 year old granddaughter!  On Tuesday, filled with optimism, we loaded the trailer with empty buckets and headed to the field.  We returned about 5:30 pm with 600 pounds of tomatoes and lots of peppers.  Much of rainy Wednesday was spent wiping and sorting.  Market on Thursday was chilly, but mercifully dry.  On Friday, once again, we loaded empty buckets on the trailer and picked 300 pounds of tomatoes and more peppers.  Saturday morning the low temperature was a frosty 30.5 degrees.  Perhaps no more harvesting.

Today we did no farming for the first time since June!  After church we enjoyed an omelet made with our peppers...hiked through fields and woods...savored coffee and worked a crossword puzzle on the veranda...watched the sky and the trees change color as the sun set on another spectacular fall day!

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.