BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!!!!!!!!

It's finally turned hot! August had been a very cool month with temperatures at night down in the upper sixties and low fifties and day time temps in the upper seventies! Was very nice and made for excellent market days! But the typical hot August weather has arrived this past week with yesterday reaching 97 degrees. We sure could use some rain, too. Until this last week it had been pretty green for August, but with the heat and lack of rain this week things are turning brown.

We've been busy! Our heirloom tomatoes are really going strong. We have been selling lots, but still have lots to get rid of. I'm taking some to our local food bank today, we've been dehydrating some along with also doing okra and green beans. We've also started digging potatoes, so far they are doing just so so, but we got them in awfully late and have been having to irrigate them. Our zucchini is going gang buster like zucchini usually does. I've been grinding up lots to freeze for zucchini bread! We finally got our strawberry tips last Tuesday and got them rooting. They were about ten days late in arriving which puts them further behind in getting planted this fall which affects how big and established they will be going into the winter. Let's hope for a mild and long fall!