Well, we did not end up starting the peaches yesterday, there was just too much cleaning and picking to do. I was picking the squash in the morning and when I got to the pole garden with the table dainty I found these 3 Armenian cucumbers nice and large and ready to pick. They weigh 5 pounds together.
The squash had 26 pounds ready to harvest. The chiffon were the largest number and sized for the day, which they tend to be the biggest but some of the Ravens will get large too.
Our frog friend hung out in the flower pot on the deck over night and the boys found it still chilling there in the morning. They put it back and let it do its thing. Trying to get the boys to not man handle to poor frog and to be gentle with it.
My mid day was spent moving the icicle lights from the edge of the pergola to the railing. I had gotten tired of having to duck the lights when walking off the deck and decided it was the day to move them. I had to zip tie them to the balusters under the top rail. I had some repair work to do on them as one string had partially untwisted and needed a bunch of zip ties to keep it together.
I am rather proud of this move. I was trying to figure a way to get the wire to run through the deck close to the post and after grabbing a 1/4" wood paddle bit I managed to drill the hole perfectly, blind. I had to drill from beneath the deck and I eyeballed the alignment and it landed perfectly between the decking. A little wallowing of the bit and I had just enough room to slide the wire through.
The lights had the standard Christmas light plug on the end which I cut off and then hard wired them. Wire nuts and electrical tape have the lights working perfectly now and they are tightly affixed to the railing.
The heat has not been kind to my Gourmet Orange peppers, they have been getting sun burnt, which are the 3 peppers on the left. There are a few other peppers that have some spots that will have to get pulled soon. The two big ones are California Wonder greens which are possibly the largest peppers I have grown, though I have a few peppers on plants now that dwarf these even. The little red one in the middle is a Hungarian wax hot pepper that has fully ripened.
The pole beans have been growing away and while picking the Armenian cucs in the morning I noticed a number of nice big Fortex pole beans were ready. I filled a bucket to overflowing which was right at 10 pounds.
The one bucket got filled from just one side of the row, the other side of the row only gave a partial bucket full so I went to the main garden and finished picking a couple of rows to fill the bucket with another 10 pounds. This gave me enough beans to fulfill my order for Tuesday, now we just need to bag them all.
I'm getting some of the bumblebee tomatoes starting to ripen along with the tsunshingo, the sungold and red cherry are ripening faster. With the 2 pounds that came off the plants I am over 1900 pounds of produce picked this year from my gardens, with 1800 of it sold.
While I was picking and working on the lights @stryeyz and the boys worked on cleaning J's room, which took a lot of time. Cleaning and organizing are not the boys' forte so it goes really slowly. Today we have to organize the freezer for our inbound quarter of beef, R's room is a complete disaster and needs serious work, the peaches HAVE to get worked on today after we have dealt with the freezer, and I have more picking to do like every day.
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