This year's garden has been a very successful one and the veggies keep coming.
Before I get to showing you what we've got going on in our garden I must show you a vine that continues to grow even though no care has been given to it in years. These hop vines are at the corner of our property. Back 10 years or so I spent hours caring for these prolific growers. Using the hop flowers to make homebrew was a passion of mine. Since I no longer make homebrew, I just let them do their thing. This year, probably due to all of the rain we got, the vines produced so many hops that I'm considering making some homebrew again.
Thank goodness we planted Cherry Tomatoes this year because we've been eating them for over a month now.
Just over the last 10 days or so, the other tomatoes are turning ripe and ready to eat. Every day we're harvesting a basket full. We do love our tomatoes, but one can only eat so many. Making some tomato sauce should take care of that welcomed problem.
Usually, by this time of year, the squash plants are on their way out. With the end of summer just around the corner, the plants are going crazy. This is the first year we planted the squash plants in one of our raised boxes and it's also the first year we didn't have to do battle with powdery mildew. I wonder if getting the plants off of the ground is the reason.
The plants never looked so healthy!
Our first attempt at growing Collard Greens was a resounding success.
While in Florida this year 
The string beans are plentiful and we've been blanching a load of them and vacuum sealing and freezing them for later on.
The carrots are doing well, give them another few weeks and it will be time to harvest them.
The most exciting thing that went on this year with our garden is that we GOT APPLES. I've already picked 40 of them and given them to our children. Our grandkids love them. Cut them into slices and add a tablespoon of peanut butter for dipping them in and presto they are gone in a few minutes.
On the other side of the gardening coin are the beets.
I'm not sure what is going on with my favorite veggie, but they just aren't doing well. Since the beginning, the vegetation looked rather pale and distressed. Just a few days ago I uncovered a few of them and all I found was a long beetroot about a 1/4 inch in diameter. Since beets like the cold weather I'll let them go for a few more months and see what happens.
