2022 Wiperhunter2's garden

[wiperhunter2]

The green beans came on strong after my last post, we got all the way up to 222 green beans in one picking, we pick them every other day, so three picking in a week, before the numbers started dropping off. Here is my last picking of yellow squash, zucchini, also got a cuke and a cantaloupe.

Only got one small watermelon before the vines died. Peaches are coming on strong now, almost finished processing 400 hundred peaches, most were freeze dried but have froze 20 qt bags as well. My second tree is just about ripe, so will start taking some on us by later this week. Got the word last week that they are shutting off our secondary was on the 26th of this month, so that is about a month longer than last year.

38 degrees here once again. Starting tomorrow night we should be back to at least upper 40s - fingers crossed. Saw some shady areas that had a light frost on the grass below but looks like our garden escaped getting any.  That was close. We are trying to give our tomatoes a hint via a little pruning to ripen up faster. No more jars and no more freezer space. With just us two, it's hard to just keep eating all we can pick each day.

Wow, that is cold for Sept, it got down to 54 here overnight and that was plenty cold. 
You should consider buying another or a bigger freezer. What we try and do is have enough in our freezer so we don't buy them at all until next years garden starts to produce. In all our years of blanching vegetables, mainly yellow squash and zucchini, this last year was the first year we saved more than we used, so that was our reasoning on why we should start freeze drying our squash, that way it doesn't go bad sitting in the freezer. So far we have never had a problem with blanching squash and keeping it in the freezer up to one year,, this will be our first year of eating squash that is over a year old, hopefully it doesn't get freezer burned.

Do you guys ever have an issue with cross pollination where your squash have a different color, like this pic below, where you can see the color difference in the yellow squash on the right compared to the ones on the left?