This roundup is late, and will be brief, because I was sick for a good chunk of July. A stomach bug tripped me, and then like four or five other things dogpiled on. I’m fine, the only issues I have left are a cough, and I tire easily, but I don’t know if part of that is from the heat, or just that I haven’t done anything for three weeks.
Anyway, in July we got
about 87 eggs. I say about, because for
a week or so I didn’t collect the eggs and didn’t care to ask how many we got,
so that’s a rough estimate.
The first patch of
lettuce started to go to seed, but the second patch is up and I’ve started
picking from it. Our peas produced
pretty well this year, and while some of the plants are dying, others still
have blossoms, so I don’t know how much longer we’ll get peas. I’ve also picked some red raspberries, and some
black raspberries.
We got swamped in
blueberries. Even with pies, and putting
them in cakes and cereal, and letting neighbors pick as many as they want, I
think my mom said we have 25 quart bags in the freezer. And one of my sisters has 17. And there are still some blueberries left to
pick.
New things we’ve picked
in July: blackberries, tomatoes, several nice heads of broccoli, and zucchini. We got 19 zucchinis, most of which were
smaller sized, but three we missed and will be ground up for zucchini
bread.
Also, I had put a couple
of potatoes in containers, just to see how they did. They were starting to die, so I pulled them
and got some pretty nice potatoes.
