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6 years ago

I have a basket of green beans to go in the pot today. YUM. I fear this may be the last big pot I cook this year. I can see the fresh produce is starting to dwindle a bit. Okra and corn are scarce and there were no Cherokee Purples this week, although I was able to buy other tomatoes. Just another reason why I love spring and summer!!!

Comments (7)

  • 6 years ago

    Have these come from your own garden?


    We've been deluged with rain this week, and I fear that my baby veggie plants may have become drowning victims. Makes me quite sad, as they were doing beautifully up until all of this junk falling from the sky. We shall see, once things dry out a bit. The upside is that our ground cover seed sown over the weekend is already coming up and looking terrific. Apparently it adores this major soaking.

  • 6 years ago

    Same here. Our green beans and corn were so very yummy. DIL made bags of frozen corn for us which was nice so I wouldn't have to do any work. And I forgot to put lettuce seeds in a large planter next to the house so I wouldn't have to walk to to the garden. Lazy me. :)





  • 6 years ago

    I always am sad to see the summer produce season end. I’ve been eating tomatoes and peaches like they are going out of style. I e had great corn and good peaches but the tomatoes have been hit or miss. I don’t grow them, I buy them from the farm market.

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    We’re still getting okra and tomatoes from our garden but I can see the end will be soon. Green beans have been done for awhile and wish we had more.

  • 6 years ago

    We will get tomatoes for another few weeks, and herbs and lettuces and eggplants. I didn't care for our cukes at all, IDK why.


    I will miss nectarines most when the season turns, but look forward to pears!

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    Ida, we normally plant a small garden but we didn't this year. But, we have a wonderful produce market (with fresh local produce) and a weekly farmer's market. Not to mention a few farming friends LOL. We are in an area of farms - both crops and livestock!

    Tomatoes will be here a while longer, but the Cherokee Purples seem to be slowing down. Mt. we love cukes and have them many evenings! I made corn salad yesterday so there went some cuke, red pepper, celery, etc. We are lucky now that corn did not do well earlier in the season (too wet) and many farmers planted a second time. But, there won't be much left or that or okra. Zucchini and squash are still plentiful. Much of this I can get year round but not good tomatoes!!


    Oakley, we freeze corn. It's so easy and so good in the winter! We have never planted lettuce as there is only the two of us and we'd never eat that much lettuce! LOL

  • 6 years ago

    My Cherokee Purples have almost stopped but they are well known to be a determinate, for me anyway. However their new cousin, Cherokee Carbon, is still producing, so I have had several of those, although now smaller, and many more green ones still to come. I also still have a few Lemon Boy and a few Sun Gold hanging on. I have a nice supply of homemade tomato sauce in the freezer.

    The deer have been eating the cucumber vines from the fence. I didn’t have many squash and didn’t care for the crowder peas I grew this year so I pulled them a couple of weeks ago.