Harvests and Firsts

Today reached 100 degrees or so! After work I washed my water feature and then gave all the dogs a bath outside with the hose. They don't mind this at all, since the cold water feels great and they are dry in 5 minutes! I have been getting up earlier to let them out to play in the morning. They run around in the yard and I spend time in the garden, this is my favorite time to be out there. Living in the city you hear all kinds of noises during the day, but between 4:30 and 5:30 there isn't much but the occasion car.

Here is Kirby enjoying my water feature!!! Isn't he cute? See its all nice and clean and the water was nice and cool for his little feet!!
My first cucumber of the season!!! This is one that I attempted to hand pollinate, it must have worked!!! This little guy is the one of the slicing variety, YUM YUM!!!
My goal was to have atleast one FULL bag of peas, as you can see I got close. Obviously this won't last us through the winter, but I have a second chance in the fall. I did learn however that you can plant a lot more peas in a smaller space, thus creating a bigger harvest. We have already had one dinner of peas and they were DE-LISH!!!
Green Bean season has just begun. My goal is to have 5 total planting of green beans. Eventually my peas, broccoli and cabbage will die out and I will replace them with Green Beans! Yum!!While my corn was truly a flop, I did manage to get a decent harvest! After blanching and de-cobbing this harvest I ended up with 2lbs 2 oz. (I harvested some last week too) Not bad for munchkin corn. There is still quite a few ears on the stalks that I am hoping to harvest in a few days.

Well I am off to bed! Thursday and Friday can not come soon enough. (Those are my two days off) Tomorrow I am going to attempt to do some cleaning and maybe look into some raspberry farms. Raspberry Jam on homemade scones sounds so good right now!!!