End of Summer



Well, it's the end of summer.  Peaches are almost gone from SC now, and the ones that you can find are very expensive. They never were really cheap this year, but I did find some deals in July and early August.  The best deal I got was at the SC Farmers Market.  A guy had them for $16 a basket when I got there, and after wandering around for an hour, when I came back by he only had two baskets left.  He was ready to go home so he let me have both for $20.   They weren't the best peaches, due to some hail damage, and they were very very ripe, but I wound up using about two thirds of them, so it was a pretty good deal, maybe, kind of.
Alice pulled up all our tomato plants a couple of weeks ago, and I had good intentions of putting in some patty pan squash plants in their place,  but I let them go too long and lost about half of them.  I might try to plant some again in a week or two, since I had pretty good luck with then last fall. I'm definitely going to try some fall and winter greens. Last year we have very good luck with Swiss Chard. In fact, we still have two plants that were planted last winter.  We occaisionally beat the bugs to them, usually harvesting enough for a couple of salads or sandwiches.