Cleaning Up the Pumpkin Patch.

Saturday was spent doing some serious crop control work in the pumpkin patch... cutting/pulling weeds, thinning out the yellowed/brown pumpkin vines on the upper side of the patch, spraying fungicide, etc. It was blazing hot in the summer heat and humidity... but, it needed to be done. And at this point if we have even one single orange pumpkin out of this patch it will be a miracle. The other side right now is an entirely different story! Of course, between the weather and the bug population anything can happen! Besides it's only August and the pumpkins have another 2 months to grow.... that's a really long time for the bugs to make their way in and do their damage. If you compare last Sunday's posted photo of the "yellowed" pumpkin vines to today's you will see a major renovation!

I know... it's sad, isn't it? But, we definitely thinned them out... and can only hope the few we left in the patch will produce something...

The other side of the patch is looking great!

We even found a couple of nice sized pumpkins starting up!!

Few other things found around the farm on Saturday: Second planting of corn is just now starting to come in!

The peas are starting to bloom again! Unbelievable!!

Nice sized Fuji apple on the apple tree!

Some poor soul braved the sticky, itchy and scratchy conditions of the tall okra plants and did some okra picking!

Some poor baby dog rolled in the big mud puddle in the front 40 and had to get bathed.

The cool water does feel good though!

The end of the day harvest made a great ending to the day... Seems the green beans are reproducing again!