I was away on vacation for the last week thus the lack of updates. Everything seemed to survive while I was away - thanks to a neighbor who offered to help keep everything watered while we were away. I had enough cucumbers upon returning to make 4 more jars of pickles. However the end of my cucumber harvesting is near. The plants are starting to die off and are not producing many cucumbers anymore. But I must have made at least 20 jars of pickles. Not bad for only 5 plants! I have people already placing "orders" for next year!

Before we left I picked all of my tomatoes that had the slightest bit of red on them. I left them out on the kitchen table and when we returned they were all ripe - and I had ripe ones outside by that time as well. I ended up making 2 jars of salsa yesterday and more sauce and tomato pies are in our near future.

In other news, I've picked a bunch of my sweet peppers and my last baby cabbage. The lettuce and snow peas that I started a few weeks ago have come up and are doing well. I've also replanted some cabbage and spinach. I'm going to be clearing out my dying bean plants and planting some additional spinach and maybe some swiss chard as well. Hopefully there will be enough time left this year to get a good second crop!