die Güte Gottes

“Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it;

Thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God,which is full of water:

Thou preparest them corn, when Thou hast so provided for it.

Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly:

Thou settlest the furrows thereof;

Thou makest  it soft with showers:

Thou blessest the springing thereof.

Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness.

They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness; and the little hills rejoice on every side.

The pastures are clothed with flocks;

the valleys also are covered over with corn;

they shout for joy, they also sing.  Psalm 65:9-13

~~Our Summer Garden, 2011!~~

Despite a battle against squash bugs and blister beetles, the Lord has blessed us with a fairly productive garden this year. We tripled the size from last year, and are eagerly awaiting the harvest!

Sugar baby watermelons…mmm!

Cucumbers and beans dwell in harmony

We were so happy. All of our cukes, squash, zucchini, peppers and tomatoes were planted using seed we saved last year.

Almost everything has been true to their parents. Only a couple squash were green 😉

German Lunchbox tomatoes growing beautifully!

(Seeds saved from the Stricklen’s garden a couple years ago)

(Yummy Rattlesnake Pole Beans are starting to produce…

(Seed saved from the Lind’s garden last year)

Part of the garden a few weeks ago

The sweet potatoes before they really started vining out.

(Slips grown from some of the Lind’s potatoes last year)Our second planting of cucumbers starting to come up

And a few complimentary weeds 😉

Our first cucumber planting is producing an abundance of cucumbers!

We bring a basket like this in every other day.

Here, we have Marketmore, Richmond Green Apple, and Sumpter Pickling Cucumbers.

All three varieties are favorites around here. And all three make wonderful pickles. 🙂

Our onions did not do terribly well. We had many…fatalities.  But the ones we harvested will last us a while!  I braided a lot of them together and they are hanging in the garage now.

Our potatoes were just gorgeous…Huge, full plants.

One sad morning we walked down to the garden…We found that the blister beetles devoured our beautiful potato plants in about two days! :-0

We dug the potatoes, but they were rather small.  There were so many though! Had they been allowed to grow to full size, we would have had potatoes to last us quite a while. We were thankful for what we got though. 😉…A rather un-related picture of Kitty’s very healthy, happy piggies 😉

Y’all come back now!

~Sarah~