Getting Ready; County Fair

Most of the collection of vegetables

Our county fair is this week and I'm scrambling to get my veggies ready to take to the fairgrounds, having to juggle some crazy work stuff along with that.

Besides some single veggie entries I'm also entering the vegetable collection. This first pic is most of them, the other one are things that would wilt quickly so they are waiting in a jar of water until I take off.

the rest of the veggie collection

There are 23 things in my veggie collection:

SPAGHETTI SQUASH

TROMBONCINO SQUASH

BUTTERCUP SQUASH

BABY BLUE HUBBARD SQUASH

YELLOW ZUCHINNI SQUASH

WHITE PATTY PAN SQUASH

YELLOW WAX BEANS

KENTUCKY WONDER BEANS

KING OF THE GARDEN LIMA BEANS

TRIONFO VIOLETTO BEANS

RED CURRANT TOMATO

SNOW WHITE TOMATO

PRINCEPE BORGHESE TOMATO

AMISH PASTE TOMATO

RAINBOW CHARD

RED BURGUNDY AMARANTH

ALL BLUE POTATO

GERMAN BUTTERBALL POTATO

YUKON GOLD POTATO

TOKYO LONG WHITE GREEN ONION

GREEN BELL PEPPER (UNKNOWN VARIETY)

GREEN CHILI, JOE E. PARKER

EASTER EGG RADISH

PURPLE DRAGON CARROT

STREAKED EGGPLANT

PURPLE EGGPLANT

I'm also entering some of the same veggies in their individual classes and have them sorted and labeled to make it easier when I get to the fair grounds.

winter squash

 

That Tromboncino weighs in at 12 pounds as near as I can figure (I had to use the bathroom scale!)

tomatoes, potatoes, chili, beans

Harvest Monday

Path into the front yard

Well I don't have any pictures of stuff harvested this past week! Both of my camera batteries were dead and I couldn't find my charger for several days. Talk about being blind, it was of course right where I last left it, under my nose!

Welcome to Harvest Monday though, I'll still be hooking up with our lovely host Daphne for the blog hop. In the meantime I will recycle pictures of past produce that are representative of this weeks harvest.

Here's a shot of the front yard path. Beginning to look a bit sad out there, the grape vine is suffering from the skelatonizers which I didn't see early enough to head off before there was a lot of damage. It's ok, no grapes this year anyway.

On the arch there is my first and perhaps only luffa for the year. The soil in this area is not the best so it hasn't grown nearly as much as the other squashes I have. And a bright cheery sunflower, soon to be chicken food.

This week I did harvest about another ounce of ground cherries.

A few more large fruited tomatoes

Some more beans

Eggs

A pile of green chilies bigger than this one

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Some squash and eggplant. I also picked a lot of the small tomatoes. I've been trying to get some fall crops started but it has been really hot and while over the hill got some good rain I have had almost none.