It has been such a busy couple of weeks and now we are back to school (homeschool), so I haven't had much time online lately, but here a couple of pics from around the ol' homestead this week.
The biggest tomato I got this year was a Kellogg's Breakfast. Each plant produced lots of nice, big tomatoes too. Very productive.
A 3-gallon bucket of bell peppers I picked off of two plants today. These will be stuffed green peppers tomorrow.
Some more peppers from the other day. The jalapenos were made into
Candied Jalapenos , a recipe that Jared told me about and it promises to make me famous...LOL. The hot bananas have been cut up and frozen for now until I can get some sweet bananas to mix in for Hot pepper butter (mustard).
Things are starting to wind down in the big garden, but I am still picking lots of beans. (The sunflowers in the background were planted by the chipmunks.
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These Nickel heirloom Appalachian pole beans are a "greasy" type. They have outproduced the other two Appalachian heirlooms I have by about 2 to 1. They are large pods, extremely tender, tasty and perfect for canning.
These are some of the Ora's Speckled greasy cut-shorts. I haven't picked from the 3rd teepee yet (Hill Family greasy, with multi-colored beans in the dried pods) but hopefully tomorrow if I get time.
After the potatoes came out of my front raised bed, I put in a variety of fall stuff. The carrots are too small to be seen in the pic and the parsley didn't come up. The vines in front are canteloupe....I've got roughly 6 weeks left in my growing season. Not sure if they'll make it. Then there's a little fennel, basil, beets, bright lights swiss chard, bok choy (I picked half of it as baby bok choy), the carrots and then some sugar snap peas. DH is not going to be happy about having to mow around the canteloupe vines.
My MIL gave me this red passionvine. It is so pretty, but it is like a monster consuming my chainlink fence!
I am bun-bun sitting for my sister while she is at the beach. This is Sweet Sweet Petunia and Lunetteka Dear. They are American fuzzy lops.
And this is Thumper, my DD6's bun-bun. (Thumper is what we settled on after I had to veto several not-so-bunny-like names she came up with.
) He is such a sweetie-pie!
My CX meat bird chicks arrived on Wednesday. All 31 survived and are doing great so far. DH and I will hopefully have the layer's new coop finished tomorrow and the CX will go out into the tractor here in two more weeks.
My main garden is a weedy mess and I'm ready to be done with it and clear it off here very soon, or at least most of it. Then I'll put the chicken tractor over the garden and the CX can poop all they want.
I am just going to have to fence/electrify my whole backyard. We wanted to do it this spring, but some work around the house took precedence (all the money.) 
It's not like the peaches would have been any good anyway, scab has ruined most if not all of them. I may take that tree down and plant an earlier variety. I wish I could remember what variety the younger one is. It bears very early. It's a cling peach though, and the larger one is a freestone. Maybe I can find an early freestone. I just hate loosing all those years of growth, just to start over. I'm not getting any younger, and I want peaches!
