That does it!!!!! I am coming to your farmstand!

I am starting to get some good tomatoes but most havve rotted due to the heavy rains. So have some of the red cabbages. Beans are starting and so are the peppers and zukes. Plus the 5 in one day cucumbers.

And the da*n rabbit ate the lettuce to the roots......

That's just beautiful!

Looks great despite the poor start! My gardens are having a slow start too... Mid July and we're still getting the occasional night in the 40s! :(

What a beautiful bounty you have grown. I love your story telling too. I see lots of hearty meals in your future that you have grown. Eating from the land that you planted. Very rewarding. Thanks for sharing.
Mary

Looks like a lot of canning to me. Looks like you need to buy another freezer. :-)

dcarch

Annie, your garden looks beautiful despite the deer!

Happy Gardening!
Becky

WOW, that's terrific.

I think we can hit Annie's place on our way to Ann_T's.

Eat our way across North America. What a trip! We can start in the southeast and head up to the northwest.

Annie, do you have a farm stand and sell any of it? That's a lot of garden.

Maybe you should start a CSA with Forum members!!

Bless the farmers and the earth, bless the sunshine and the rain.
Bless the rabbits and the deer so they don't come by again.

Annie, your garden is bigger than my entire beach lot. Oh well, I love living here even though few veggies grow with the amount of salt we have in the water, wind and in rain.

Your garden is absolutely beautiful!!!!

"---Bless the rabbits and the deer---"

Then cook then. :-)

dcarch

Looking at your garden pictures makes me tired. Reminds me of our gardens years ago before moving to town. Lots and lots of work, but don't you enjoy all the results next January when the snow is flying, and us town folks have to go to the grocery store for our meals.

Look beyond the garden....it looks so green and peaceful, quiet and serene. I can just imagine the sound of the country side.

Shirl

Thanks, Islay. I think everyone's version of beautiful is different, but I think it's as lovely as any beach or island. I love my garden, it's where I'm content.

Partymusic, it's been in the 40s here for the past couple of nights too. You never quite know what Michigan is going to throw at you at any given time, but we don't get bored.

Shirl, it IS a lot of work, but it is also peaceful, quiet and serene. As long as Bossy Cow doesn't notice that I'm there and start bellowing for a treat, LOL. It looks different now, though, that hay field behind the small barn got cut today, finally. We haven't had a break in the rain long enough to get hay in until now.

I enjoy the garden. Somehow, no one bothers me there, I think they're afraid I'll put them to work. I'm perfectly happy spending hours just pulling weeds and checking blossoms and small fruits, thinning plants and planning my canning and cooking.

Plllog, thanks for the prayers, I think I might need some, but not as many as those darned deer are going to need come November. Rats on hooves, I detest 'em.

Dcarch, I fully intend to eat the darned things. It's the farmer mentality, that symbiotic relationship, if I feed them, I get to eat them. We're already plotting our revenge for deer season. As for rabbits, well, Molly has been on patrol, no problem with them or squirrels, moles or groundhogs, she's got them all handled. Just deer and potato beetles, which I've squished by the thousands this year.

Momj47, I don't sell any and don't have a CSA. I do give a lot away, and this year my granddaughter, The Monkey Princess, plans a roadside stand to make college money. She says she's planning to be a doctor and will need to go to Yale. (grin) That's a lot of tomatoes and eggs!

Grandmamary, the only thing that would make it better would be one of the grandkids standing in it. I figure that will happen about October, when those apples ripen, although Makayla did help plant and does help hoe and pull weeds. That planting help is why I spent so much time thinning rutabaga and turnips, but the company is so worth it.

Peppi, come on up any time, you know my door is open. Bring your Dad and the small furry boss, you know you are all welcome anytime.

Beachlily, I do have room to "spread out", but no beach. I could swim in the stock tank, I guess. (grin) Oh, and I have lilies in front of the milk house, I know you'd be proud of me, growing something that isn't technically food!

Booberry, I'm just so darned happy to see you here, welcome home!

If we don't get some rain, I'll need to water the tomatoes, and of course, the well at the farm has once again decided to just lose prime and stop pumping. Ugh. Two wells out there and neither one gives me water, go figure.

Annie

I still lurk a lot! Just started doing some canning here.

I read Dcarch's comment and thought, "Hmm, free range rabbits and venison!"