Aug 30 New totals and did some cleaning out

 And while cleaning out, found 3 Z and 8 Cukes.

New total:  (drum roll please)  49 zucchini, 72 Cucumbers, still only 4 summer squash and 5 butternut squash.

Busy harvest

I love how gladiolas just show up. The plant looks like just leave and suddenly color.

Made zucchini relish. And then I made zucchini yogurt dark brown sugar chocolate chip coconut oil bread that is so rich. Like brownies.

Lemon Ginger carrot soup for the freezer.
 

August 21, 2020 Total so far 40 zuch 49 Cuke 4 Summer Sq

 Not sure the problem with the summer squash

So it's been the craziness or making breads.   I have made at least 25ga loaves of Zucchini bread.  Probably more as I have lost count.

The new recipe this year is dark Chocolate

Yesterday I was a bit perturbed at my guests. They like this one recipe of yogurt and choc chip. Well, I took out blueberry yogurt by mistake and they did not like it. I had some of these dark Chocolate chip cut in pieces and put those out. The woman ate 6 pieces of the small dark bread. Sometimes my guests, and we have had so many this summer, are a bit rude.

Zucchini chips have been really good. Making more today.  

Tom and I have had  zucchini boats one day and I hope to make another one this week as Tom found another "baseball bat" this morning.

The refrigerator is now full of pickles.  5 Bread and butter and they are floating again.  And 16 dill and THAT IS IT. I  just cannot make any more.

I have been serving cucumber dill salad to guests and that uses up the cucumbers.

I've given away 10 of the zucchini. 

Japanese beetles have eaten the cosmos this year.  I have these beautiful yellow marigolds in the garden but have not transplanted due to the intense heat. It has been 97 or above for weeks now and no rain.  Our grass looks terrible.  My potted plants are surviving.  I am home only 2 more weeks and not sure what to do with all of them.

before we leave I will pick the butternut squash and put in the basement.  this next week is carrot week.  Must get those out.

And need to make more pesto.

The cherry tomatoes are very tiny but i continue to get the other tomatoes. They are on my window sill. So tomatoes and peppers have been good this year.  

August 10, 2020 back from Jackson Hole

The count so far is 29 zucchini, 37 cucumbers and 4 summer squash.  Still getting kale.  Lots of butternut squash in there.  So glad to have that great dill plant!

I made zucchini lasagna.  It was a ton of work as you are supposed to grill the mandolin sliced lasagna. Well, Tom mandolin-sliced them and I started to grill but it was not working.  So I put them in the oven.  I feel like they got rubbery.  Alex and Tom liked it though.

This is funny but I thought the orange ones were going to turn red but I think I have 2 different plants in the pot

I gave the BB gun back and wish I had not as there was another evil rabbit eating the drought-stressed front yard.

 I made cucumber dill salad every day.