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OK, my turn for garden pics! I only took photos of the veggie garden though. Finally caught up on the weeding (for the most part!) last week, so I took pics. No picks of flowers or the backyard which is the fruit garden area, with 30+ blueberry bushes, 60 ft of raspberry rows, 30 ft of grapes, + 10 apple trees, and a few pear trees too!



This is the view of the veggie garden from our front deck. With two ancient Rainier Cherry trees beyond....


The sunflowers. To the left is my strawberry patch. Not quite done weeding that though. Gotta get some straw this week to throw over the whole thing. To the left of the strawberry's is a half row of asparagus. The second half of the row never came up. I think I am going to transplant the ones that did come up over near the greenhouse in the spring. These plants will be 4 yrs old in the spring and I've tried 2x to plan new starts in the other half of the row, and they've all rotted in the ground. I think mine are probably strong enough to make it....anyone done this before? I also don't like where these are, never realized they grew so tall and they are the first thing you hit walking in the gate, and DH has trouble mowing around them, so they'd be safer along the side of the greenhouse.




The scarlet runner beans. They are my English MIL's favorite so always have to plant some. Got these in soooooooooo late this year though. Just picked our first batch of them on Thursday! But the flowers are pretty and the hummingbirds love them!




Past the runner beans, we have many huge heads of red cabbage, and winter garden starts are in. More kale seeds are in, green cabbagestarts, lettuces, bok choy, cauliflower....
You can see the pumpkins and winter squashes in the background.



Another view of lettuces on the left, bok choy in the middle, caulflower with some reay brussel sprouts on the right, with spinach, carrots, beets in the background with a huge pumpkin creeping down between the rows!



Beets and carrots that I need to harvest seriously soon. With brussel sprouts to the left and more weeding needed on the right!
Have already planted more beets for greens and some kale........A row of peppers is to the right of the weeds, with a few newly planted cauliflower plants where the peppers didn't do so well.



Inside the greenhouse, 5 pepper plants down the middle, plus two HUGE basil plants and a rosemary plant, than 18 tomato plants around the perimeter. LOTS of huge green tomatoes and a small picking each day of ripe fruit, but mostly cherry and grape tomatoes with an occasional larger variety. Didn't get the greenhouse up until the 2nd week of June. Hoping to have ripe fruit earlier next year!!!

Didn't take close ups of the summer squash, winter squash and pumpkins, but they are all going gangbusters!
I knew you were busy doing something ! Great garden !!!!!!!!!!
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Honestly, I don't think we have any more room for smoke. so some of it has to go to your side. What is scary/sad is that we are expecting more dry lightning tonight. Also, the fire that is buring in the Alta Lake area - many have been evacuated - was started by boys target shooting at EXPLODING targets. I have no problem with exploding targets - they are fun. But not in a dry area with no water available. Poor boys. they did turn themselves in, but their parents are no responsible for any and all expenses of fire fighting and any homes that are lost and property. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

I think all of our side of WA is on fire. it is crazy. Wenatche is 2 hours from us - we were suppose to go today - but the smoke is so thick that they cannot see across the street. Also a lot of games have been moved out of Cashmere, Wenatchee and Ellensburg and sent to us, and Moses Lake and Seattle. It is really bad.
Your smoke is over here today on the coast, the sun is orange, the sky is white-brown.....so scarey !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Thank you. We are good. We are surrounded by green alfalfa fields and apple orchards. Heather is in a bit of a scary area. It is just scary all around. So many people displaced. So much destroyed.
It is scarey here !
We have over 4' tall grasses and masses of woods that is difficult to walk through !
ALL cracklin' dry and lots of dead fall............I am scared for us, we'll never see it coming we are so secluded by woods/brush.............


We need rain so bad !!!!!!!!!!!!
 
There are people who will come remove them!!!!! They use them to make ANTI venom. Speaking of has any body here ever been prescribed an EPI pen??? Well I was last week. When I went to the pharmacy guess what. They give those things away. Yup $240.00 . At that rate I will just need to say a few special words before working with the girls because there is just no way I can buy the pen!!!!
I have 4 or 5...and a "practice one" that teaches ya how to shoot yourself.
 
How long would you all wait before allowing the rest of the healthy girls out in the yard? DH went out and put the hose on the contaminated area for several hours today. a LOT of water was used to wash away the poison. I just don't know how long to wait. I'm so scared another one will die over this whole poison issue. And since I don't even know if it was, truly, the problem, I don't know what to do. Eesh I'm really freaked out.
I am still not convinced she was killed by poison.
Did you see her eat any dead hornets ?
If she did, she was with the rest of the flock, and others would have eaten them also...and yet the rest are fine ?
 
Yup See in July and early August I took about 60 stings. All but were at the elbow area of my right arm. Not just 1 or 2 at a time noooooo it was more like 10-15 at a time. Yess the last time I started sweating real bad and got short of breath. Actually it made pretty scared in fact to the point that I mentioned during a Dr visit and he told me what 2 OTC meds to carry and take take them AS SOON as I get stung . Then if still a reaction use the pen and call 911. Well I am forced to function on a little different plan.
AND at the last chicken show we had our pot luck and CR got real sick after eating something.
 
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