Garden 2012 - August

August was a hot one, but the garden still did well.  The cucumbers and squash patch was taken out and that made room for some other fall vegetables to be put in.

Our sunflowers hung their pretty heads, so we took them down for the birds to enjoy.

Jeren showing how big his pepper plants grew.  They got to be taller than he was. :)

We found this fellow somewhere and brought him home for the garden.  He did a great job of eating the tomato worms - we even watched him win a fight with a bird over a tomato worm. :)

Howdy, Sir!

We planted okra in July and by August is was up and blooming - isn't it gorgeous?

Our first little okra.  We pickled quite a few jars of okra (the kids favorite) and we froze about 20 quart sized bags of sliced okra to use in Succotash. Don't know what that is?  Think: fried potatoes, carrots, sweet potato, corn and okra all in the same pan......Absolute Yumminess!!!  (Silver Dollar City style)

The squash patch got tilled up again and Keith went down to the local little farmer-market-type store and asked what to plant in a fall garden.  Their answer....Green beans, Turnips, Spinach.  So he bought seeds for all three and brought them home.

Squash patch turned Turnip patch!

Fall Green Beans planted.