The Last Week of July

Hops growing up their trellis. Hops are an ingredient in beer, they add a bitter flavor.

Some wine grapes sizing up nicely.

The crops in the greenhouse have been doing pretty well. With the cool weather the extra heat in the greenhouse makes a difference.

Warmer temperatures are essential for growing melons.

Another variety of melon.

Our second picking of green beans. The variety is Haricot vert, which is French for "green bean".

The summer squash has been doing pretty well.

Sugar snap peas are pictured in the foreground, in the back I'm harvesting summer squash.

We baled some hay yesterday (Sunday) afternoon.

This crop got rained on a couple times, but it'll work for sheep food.

As the wagon gets full stacking becomes a little more tricky.


We had some trouble with the binder twine (what holds the bales together) knotting up. It might have been due to humidity from storing the twine. Next year when we are done with haying we'll store it in a bucket or plastic bag.

A full load of hay!