Harvesting and Weeding

The garden is coming to an end and there are only a few crops left that are hanging in there.  There is a bunch of butternut squash that can be picked but Lisa read that they can stay on the vine for a while until we are ready to pick them.  There is only one small problem - weeds.  We spend a good amount of time in the garden just pulling all the weeds that have taken over the beds. We concentrated mostly in the butternut squash bed. That same bed had the zucchini, cucumbers, cantaloupe, pumpkins and watermelon.  Since those crops are through the weeds took over and we let it but now the butternut squash area is cleaned up and free of weeds.  The tomatoes are still giving some fruit and the green peppers are actually turning to red peppers and we finally got a good size red pepper yesterday.  The Okra, well let's just say there is plenty of okra.  We dug up some more sweet potatoes and carrots and we even got one more bowl of green beans.  So last night's dinner was ham steaks and vegetable rice with carrots and butternut squash from the garden.  It was good!  Today is suppose to be dry and beautiful so we are all headed out to do something fun.  Check back tomorrow and see what we did!