Raindrops are falling on my head...

Yes I picked blackberries and green beans in the rain at 7 am this morning! Mosquitos eat me alive!! They have been pretty bad. We needed the rain.
I counted 6 gallons of blackberries in my freezer; I'm so over the blackberries. We have been overly blessed with more than we  need.

Clean up and re-plant

My husband and I decided to clean up the garden at the hottest part of the day today. The squash was dying and all the raised beds needed weeding. It doesn't take long to weed them; which is one of the wonderful things about a raised bed. We also have straw covering in all the beds to help cut down on weeds but you can't keep out all of them.
Since we cleared our potato and onion beds we have two empty bed which my husband tilled up. We planted more green beans in the tater bed. We still have green beans on the vine!!!  We ordered Kennebec white potatoes, white onion sets, broccoli seeds and garlic sets from Burgess.com.
The tomato vines have went crazy! I tied the vines to their cages with some old panty hose.  I somehow ended up with a cherry tomato plant and it has gone wild!  We can't eat them fast enough so what I may do is freeze them and make juice later.  We are getting lots of tomatoes and I am going to make vegetable soup using what I can from our garden.  The Japanese eggplant and okra are both coming on good. I picked a lot of okra yesterday; had to wear long sleeves because it makes me itch. Looking forward to tomorrow's harvest!

Lots of goodies from the garden

I was pleasantly surprised to see so many good looking tomatoes! This has been a good year to be a gardener despite the pests.  There is also some Okra in the bottom and I fried most of it for supper then breaded and flash froze the rest.