2025 08 05 - It's been a good year for the berries

Some of the last of the blue berries.

Covering the blue berries with netting did the trick. And being home helped too. We picked enough that both my wife and I were eating them daily and on some days freezing some. Now to get motivated to plant some more bushes.

Once the corn started I was generally eating corn twice a day when we were home. Never ran out. Did have one year that looked and tasted like field corn. And some ears I picked too early and some too late. I don't count them when I plant be it seems that I plant about 15 hills of corn in each planting with the mature dates as close to a week apart as I can get them.

For the zucchini and yellow summer squash we are throwing more than we are eating. On the onions they are now big enough that we are now pulling them as needed for cooking.

Stripped milkweed.

Not sure what kind of caterpillars these were but they seemed to start at the bottom of this milkweed and chewed to the top. I didn't realize the camera had focused on the plant, not the bugs. Once the plant was stripped to the pole, they were gone and I could not find them on any other plants.

Morning glories.

This morning glory was still trying to flower after being chewed off closer to the base. It must have been pulling all it could to make that flower. Some of the plants are finally getting full sized and blooming where I planted them. They are still doing much better in the other garden where I have been pulling them like weeds for the last few years. There they wrap around weeds, corn ... maybe I should let them grow with my beans and peas.