I am declaring it Summer! Why? Because I have a sun burn from the swim meet yesterday and with two days of work left this is close enough! With that being said, it will also signal a change in my Sunday Garden updates. Basically less pictures and more description of what I am actually doing with the things that we are harvest!

But first check out this Sunflower!

almost 8 feet tall and red!

Here is a picture of the harvest we have been getting this week

And last, we decided to go ahead and pull out the flower bed of Cosmos which started out looking like this

The reason is that the squash bugs are winning.  We are at our wits end, even using seven dust to try and stop them. I am fairly certain that within 2 weeks they will have total destroyed our current squash plants. I have not been able to get as much of either squash or zucchini as I wanted so I decided to try and plant these and get some more.

I am using the paper as mulch to suppress the weeds and other cosmos from attempting to grow.  The chickens enjoyed the cosmos plants and if they don’t eat it all it will become a part of future compost for the garden.

This week I was able to get a start on stocking our freezers, I made salsa chicken for dinner which also became 3 pans of chicken enchiladas for future use. I also make a huge breakfast bowl this am and put 8 breakfast burritos in the freezer as well.   A decent start at least!