This year we cannot get the pepper and squash to grow. The weather is very dry and we didn’t water the plants enough. The pumpkins are doing fine and they are changing to orange now.

We have dug up all the potatoes. Altogether we get about 40 pounds of potatoes out of 5 lbs of seed. Not bad for first-timer. Next year we will remember to mulch the hill.

Our potatoes seem to have been infected by the verticillium wilt, also called early dying disease. So we just simply harvest the potatoes earlier. They sure taste good and better than the store bought ones.

Zucchini is read to pick. They just keep coming, we only have 3 plants this year but it should be more than enough. We have the bush type so no need for trellis

We found out we have a rooster rather than layer. He is growing much bigger than the ladies, so we are easy to figure him out. We take him out of the coop and treat him as a pet. He is patrolling our backyard from time to time.

The buckwheat is already flowering so we have to cut them down. It is better to cut it close to earth rather than pulling the root.

Tiffany and Odelia planted buckwheat today in the portion of garden where we are not growing anything this year. Finally we got rid of most weed and hopefully the buckwheat will suppress the weed this year.

We planted the butternut squash, pumpkin, zucchini and cucmber.

We plant the tomatoes today and Tiffany plant some carrot seeds in between the tomatoes. We also plant the garlic in the bed of lettuce and spinach.

We plant 5 lb of potatoes today in 1 bed. We will plant beans along with it.