RAIN!!!

Okay, so we got some rain last night. Torrents of it! The weather gauge says 1.45 inches for yesterday, and then another 0.43 inches this morning. And boy, did we need it! A lot of trees down around here, one near my home, but no one hurt, so that's good.
I went out this morning and checked on things and saw that some of my staked tomatoes got blown sideways, but I'm gonna have to wait till the soil dries a little before I try to set them up again.
My bell peppers were gorgeous plants but had only 1 pepper on 8 different varieties, so I tried the Epsom salt thing. I added 1 tablespoon Epsom salt to 1 gallon of water and watered all my pepper plants. That was about 4 or 5 days ago, and I have tons of new blossoms on all the peppers! Could be a coincidence---I guess I'll never know for sure. 
I have my cucumbers growing up an old snow fence, and the very first cuke grew into the fence and I had to cut it out. I found another one today like that, and I snapped a picture:

Cucumber in bondage!

I had to break it in half to get it out! I put it back together for the picture. 


Then there's my Great Pumpkin. I just took this one last night:

The Great Pumpkin

I took the picture longways on my phone and can't get it to turn here. I'm just not that tech-savvy! Someday maybe I'll figure it out. Anyway, that's a softball on top for perspective. And it's still got another 3 months to go.....


I got a bunch of beets from a friend and I'm gonna pickle them, probably on Saturday. My sister-in-law and I are going berry picking on Saturday too, so we'll be busy! I want to freeze a bunch of blackberries and make some preserves and a cobbler for the "Dear Husband." Probably do a few for my parents as well.
Found two (count them!) pole beans this morning too. Hopefully they'll be producing a lot more. We like them with ham and potatoes, just boiled like that. Not a very exciting recipe, but very good!


Happy Gardening!