The deer have been eating some of our cucumbers, which didn’t concern me too terribly much since the cukes are pretty prolific, but now they’re eating our punkins! I’ll probably have to make some fence tomorrow to SOS — Save Our Squash. I thought I would be able to get away with having the cucurbits unfenced this year, since my across-the-road neighbors do, but then again their fields aren’t right next to dense woods, either.
Elden has been faithfully chipping away at our building projects on weekends and has the front of the quonset building almost done, by my estimation anyway. It seems like he’ll for sure be able to get the thing buttoned up for winter, and perhaps a little work done on the inside, too. I am not much help, unfortunately, as I’m all thumbs with any kind of power tool and pretty busy in the field, anyway.
My friend Jacob stopped by the other day and saw this 2-pound tomato sitting on the counter and said, “What’s THIS?” As I explained, it was my prize tomato out of the greenhouse, a Big Beef I believe. I brought it home for a few days to admire, then eventually gifted it to my neighbors Randy and Kathy Wolf, who supplied our compost this year. It seemed appropriate.
The Sun Jewel melons that did so well last year might surprise me and produce something edible this year. I was sure they wouldn’t make it to maturity last year, but they did, so I’m not counting them out entirely even though the fruit is still tiny right now.
Finally, the “horsetail” weeds that are so prolific at Stone’s Throw Farm are maddening, but I have to admit they’re pretty covered with morning dew.
Stone's Throw Farm 
Especially enjoyed the photos and note today. A favorite: tomato with flowers. Thanks.
I salute your spirit.
Judie
Catherine, people around Harvey are complaining that their tomatoes aren’t ripening, so many of them are pruning off the branches that don’t have any tomatoes on them. They claim the plant puts its energy into making tomatoes then instead of foliage, which we have lots of this year because of all the rain.
I’ve never heard of doing anything like this, and was wondering if this is something you have heard of in your area.
Sorry to do this in a reply window. I couldn’t get the “leave a comment” to work except as a reply to Judie’s comment.