August 9 Part 2

 I just drown 7  beetles. They were on the petunias.    So 8 jars of pickles.  Not sure what to do with the tomatoes.  

I had some overs ized cucumbers and made a nice cucumber, apple, mint drink.

 

I roasted cauliflower, cooked turkey bacon and pork bacon.  I make canneli bean hummus with all the parsley.  There is the Pico and the basil before I made pesto. I am making it with almonds not pine nuts or walnuts.  I like the taste better. 

July 2025 Garden pictures

 

Love having the Rio.  Sandy Timboe gave me the white one

Neighbor's dahlia. I took a Japanese beetle off of it as I took a walk

Swallow tail butterfly

The first of only 4 zucchini as of Aug 9

Is this something weird or a green pepper (supposed to be bell red)?

August 9, 2025 part 1

Not sure why I have not written.  Maybe because of the discouraging zucchini harvest.   Cucumbers were slow too.  But the cucumbers are coming now.  Only 2 zucchini growing now. I've picked two and Linda Coulson gave me  3. zukes.  I made chocolate zucchini bread, 3 loaves and gave the other two to the new neighbors. 

I've been enjoying killing Japanese Beetles.  I drown them, a few a night.  But the candle by the Pink cone flowers, also called echinechea I think, has been rather funny. I read somewhere but can't remember where to put a candle near the area where they are eating flowers.  When it is really hot, like it has been, the wax melts, they are attracted and fall into the candle. It's gross, yes.

Lots of tomatoes.  I had this huge one and Jodi Hook used it to make Pico.  It was green for a long time. Then what was supposed to be a mini colored pepper plant, Jodi said was jalapeno.  So one night while she was here, we made Pico and it was so good.

She loved having zoodle pesto one night during the class.