Back to Basics

I took a few days hiatus from gardening posts, mostly because it was too hot to do anything outside, but also because the heat has taken its toll on the garden in a mean, mean way inspite of my attempts to salvage it.

The peppers are a bust this year and the tomatoes and okra don't seem to like that location much better.

The Kentucky Wonder pole beans produced a little, but not as I was hoping, but they're surely dying back and will come out in two weeks regardless to make room for peas.

The cucumbers in the new garden are a bit wilty and just aren't making pretty looking cucumbers. I think they'll come out in a few weeks too and either more cukes will go in or more peas.
The only thing that seemingly laughs at the heat has been the lima beans. They reach for the sky and stay spry even in the hottest parts of the day.

There are, however, these little dark copper almost triangluar bugs EVERYWHERE on them.

I'm not sure what they are, but they don't seem to be affecting the production, yet.

Although I haven't harvested anything from them yet, they look like they're going to do wonderfully!

I took y'all's advice and made changes to the Keychains page and also took advice to include purple ribbon keychains. Purple is the color that signifies awareness for all types of cancer. Another reader suggested I make half length ones for smaller key chains, men or to keep all of those pesty cupon/discount cards that clutter up your everyday key chains. I think they're great! Here's a picture of the purple half length:

I'm so happy to say we've already gotten several orders and the first batch will go out in the mail on Monday. This is all very exciting.

The morning comes early. Sweet gardening dreams.