Lots of Weather & A Cat Tale

The past week has had a wide variety of summer temperatures with a high of 100 f  on the 16th and then backing down slowly to the mid 80's f. by Sunday.  Although the county had a number of showers and storms, most skirted around the City of Lancaster except for this past Tuesday. As a result, nearly daily watering has been a necessity. 

We picked our first corn (we only have 15 plants) on the 19th, 5 nice ears weighing 3 pounds. The tomatoes have come to a peak this week. They've amounted to a total of 19 pounds as of today.  We've been eating the corn regularly, but a large portion of the tomatoes have become sauce which we've frozen in vacuum sealed bags.  As the tomatoes end in a few weeks, we will be preparing the area for some fall plantings in mid-August. And, of course, the cucumbers and zucchini have been a fruitful as ever.  All in all, the total harvest for the week came to thirty-one pounds for which we are very grateful!

And going back to the corn for a moment, we recently had a few ears of corn on the kitchen table. Our little female cat, Jingle, decided to get on a chair and check out the corn.  I was just a few feet away when she began to nibble at the corn silk. For reasons unknown to me, I immediately thought this might not be a good idea. I took the corn away and put it out of her reach. Later, out of sheer curiosity, I searched cats/corn silk on our computer. As it turns out, corn silk is quite harmful to cats. It tends to not digest well and gets lodged in their intestinal tract. The painful results can be deadly to the cat. Just a little something for gardening cat owners to be aware of.

                                     Jingle - Alive, well & napping as usual!


Thanks for stopping by. I hope to see you next week!

Chuck





31 pound week