Since I last posted, I went back to the garden on Saturday and staked the other two tomato plants in that row. The back row of tomato plants are the tallest and the ones most in need of staking. That row is now all staked and I'll get to the others later.

I did bring home 5 yellow squash plants and 2 peppers yesterday. One of the peppers had a bad spot in it and I felt that it should come off the plant. The other pepper is quite small but solid red. The squash and zucchini plants are getting so large that they are blocking the light from the other plants. I thought about cutting them back but I didn't have anything with me to cut them. I discussed this with Mary when I got back home and she suggested that we cut them and I agreed.

Today, I wanted to cut my grass but it was too wet, so I went to the garden instead. I did cut back a lot of the large squash leaves. This allows the eggplants and the peppers to get more light. I laid the leaves in the pathways. I hope this will help keep the weeds down and possibly develop in something like a compost. At least it won't hurt anything.

We had a storm last night and it helped with the trimming back of the yellow squash by blowing over some of the leaves. It also bent one of the stalks of corn. I tied the corn back up straight. I don't know if it will make it or not.

Today, I also, tied up the one cucumber that was being overrun by the cantaloupe. I tried to put the cantaloupe back into the little fenced area that we have for them, but they keep coming through the netting.

I was talking to a couple today. This is their third year at Stansbury. They had some minor storm damage also. One of their tomato plants had blown over and something happened to one of their pepper plants. I saw that they had watermelon growing and the lady, Carol is her name, said that they planted them in the middle of the lot because the other plants would hide them and keep them from being stolen. Ours are right down at the end of the lot, so I guess we'll lose at least some of them.

I brought home 3 zucchinis and 6 yellow squash today. By necessity, I've been making some dishes using the squash. Last week, I made a stuffed zucchini with ground turkey and spaghetti sauce. It was really good. Today, I made a pie with cottage cheese, yellow squash, zucchini, and tomatoes. That was definitely better than I expected. Either tomorrow or Tuesday, I plan on making zucchini bread using a cake mix. I don't make anything that's difficult. I don't know what vitamins are in squash or tomatoes, but I do know I shouldn't be deficient in them.

In the next couple of days, I hope to get a couple of tomatoes from the garden. We've been getting two or three a week. There are plenty of tomatoes there. We just need them to ripen up and then I'll be in my glory.