Planted potatoes in a stack of tires and they are growing. Main garden got a late start but good except the carrots; lots of strawberries for the first time. Very little on the fruit trees. Five new chicks and 3 broodies "due" in a couple of days. Pigs are getting fat and love the "pergula" my husband made for their pen with cut saplings. Life is good!

Great idea, Nelda!

My tomatoes and cucumbers are blooming and doing well! The squash, gourds, luffahs and pumpkins are finally growing with the new heat but are behind due to such cool weather we have had this summer. I am hoping to get something from them, even just for the seeds. The groundhog ate the initial leaves off the squash but it has bounced back. The small cantaloupe I planted has done nothing. Carrots are up, if we can find them in the grass and weeds.

The peas have pods, the beans have blooms and the corn is higher than the grass. All doing well.

The strawberries have not produced as hoped. I guess that's due to the cool weather and lack of sun here.

I planted a field of sunflowers to dry for winter chicken feed and four that were suppose to get 15' high. The groundhog ate ALL of them! No sunflowers left. I have to get rid of that groundhog. Most of the other things I planted for chicken feed didn't even come up. I don't know why.

My shrubs, perennials and annuals are bursting forth and doing great!

Hens are great! Rooster is getting agressive.

I didn't even plant potatoes this year. By the time the ground was dry enough, I had no time for them. I wanted to do sweet potatoes too but couldn't get them to sprout in water - no time for anything else this year, anyway. Glad to hear your's turned out well, Nelda. I might be asking you for sweet potato growing advice next year.

Let's hear from everyone else too! Misjay2u?
-Sheryl