Cut more dahlias, and there are still so many more blooming and getting ready to bloom outside! Big dinner-plates of magenta and purple, medium-size pink, tiny ones that look like daisies but with various colors in the centers and petals, medium-sized ones with perfect, concentrated petal shapes - How do I love these, I can't even count the ways....
I guess I shouldn't be that disappointed that my luffas, beans, basil and cabbage failed, because the things that did produce, are producing a ton, and I have time to fill my cans and freezer with them. I processed more butternuts that were ripe, still have many more to go, been making several gallons of applesauce every week, with more to go, and processed lots of cukes - I froze many containers of cuke soup, then made 7 quarts of sweet&sour pickles out of the cukes that were big and seedy.
I brought one to work today to test on my pickle-loving coworker, and we both agreed that the flavor was delicious, but they were too soft.
Still have a bunch of small cukes on the vines, that I left to grow, but I doubt they will get much bigger. This weekend I'm going to strip them, and pickle all the tiny cukes sweet&sour like I did the oversize ones, leaving them whole. I bet they will turn out great. Also need to dig potatoes, carrots, strip the rest of the tomatoes and start winterizing the garden.
My freezer is getting close to full, and so are my canning jars.
Anybody else follow baseball? As a Mariners fan (and Detroit Tigers still, from my childhood there and my Grandpa) I'm disappointed and have lots of opinions, but it's interesting that every wild-card matchup was decided 2-0, and I think it will make for very exciting playoffs.