Late Summer Crops

The late summer crops are peaking, including raspberries and pole beans.  My rebar tower is a battlefield between morning glories and beans, with the flowers dominant for now.
I know I should cut them back to increase bean production, but there are so many buds, and I love the flowers almost as much as beans.

 I also picked my first harvest of pole Limas.  Will these crops survive a hurricane? Tune in next week to find out.

Waiting For Irene

  Right now everyone on the East Coast is waiting to see if we'll be hit by Hurricane Irene.  I did some precautionary harvesting, bringing every tomato with even a touch of pink into the safety of the garage.  I also dug my last patch of Kennebec potatoes. I got about five pounds, and only broke the skin of five,  which I will cook and make into mashed potatoes for dinner.  Here is a picture of them both, with the damaged potatoes to the left. I also have ten big tomatoes that are ripening on the kitchen counter, and about a hundred green tomatoes on the vine that I hope will survive.

I also made refrigerator pickles out of  my own garlic and Hungarian wax and Jalapeno peppers. I made these last fall and they were great, and lasted fine through winter. I used a recipe I found on line from Michael Symon.