Went out today, picked the last of the kohlrabi and pulled up my onions, shallots and garlic, put them under shade to cure. Digging up the onion bed and going to put in fall bush beans and a hill of bush cucumbers. With the earlier varieties, I can usually get a crop when planted before August 1. Maybe some chard if I have room.
Picking cucumbers today, a few cukes from my two pickle bushes, no Divas from the lone plant today, and one gorgeous cucumber from my English cucumber plant - until I turned it around and saw a big bite taken out of it (that wasn't there yesterday)! Something small to medium sized with sharp teeth is my guess. Squirrels, ground squirrels, opossums, raccoons... Picked one pepper that was turning, and saw I have a couple others set - this was one of those years, with lots of flowers, but very few setting, even on the Carmen (usually my most reliable cropper). No tomatoes turning yet, getting nice fruit set, but since the lone one I picked end of June, nothing is even close. My eggplant is becoming "the beast with a million fruit" - the plant is huge and, unlike the peppers, every flower seems to be setting on it. I've actually had to thin the blooms where there were 2 in a cluster, to just a single fruit.
