First Pumpkin!

Finally made it back over to the farm yesterday evening in between rain storms to pick in the garden... So much okra! It's worth the effort to clip it even though it's super itchy and sticky... We are going to fry us up some with green tomato chunks this weekend!! But, in other news...

The good side of the pumpkin patch is still thriving and all those little bitty pumpkins are now 2-3 inch diameter and check out our first go-getter of the patch!!!

So darn exciting! I would say 8 inch diameter and probably weighing 8-10 pounds so far... so praying the bugs and fungus stay away!

And the corn is now showing silk after tasseling earlier in the week...

We are still analyzing the other half of the pumpkin patch to see if the few vines we left behind will show evidence of growth... so far not so good. Hmmmm we shall see!

A Little Bit of Sun...

It's amazing what a little bit of sunshine will do for a garden after so many days of rain...

And yes, we know the rains are not out of here just yet... but, it has been a nice 30+ hours of no rain so far! Our one task on Monday night on the farm was to check the honey bees... which Hubby did...

A & B Companies are doing pretty swell... C-Company is doing okay but not as great as the other two.

After we checked the bees, we headed to the garden. And discovered the bean stalks had quite a lot of beans ready to pick! So we started pulling pods off the vines.

We picked our first mess of beans before dusk!

And even after everything we have been through with our first planting of corn, the corn magically had "hair" yesterday!

And the daily harvest was plentiful.