2021.09.19 -- TAP, TAP, TAP... IS THIS THING ON?

I finally got a Starlink satellite dish...

It's not the greatest internet connection, but the download/upload speeds are WAY better than the cell phone we were using the last two years. Updates should be a little more often, now.

How about a tour of the gardens? Top of my list this month are the apple trees...

I have apples on the three older trees, though the middle one only seems to have done one half...

Last spring, after they had flowered, I went through and clipped off baby apples to leave one of each bunch. The apples are nice and large because of that...

I picked a bucket-full today...

That's more than half a bushel. I prob'ly have as many still on the trees. I wrapped most of them in newspaper and put them in the root cellar for storage...

Last year, I was still eating my apples well into the end of winter. Of course, I had to test them out for breakfast. Normally, it's pancakes, but today it was frozen waffles...

The asparagus was great this year. It's gone to seed now...

It was a hot summer here, so the tomatoes did much better than last year...

We have even more rippening on the deck...

The peppers did just as well. They've been able to rippen and turn colors, too...

There are squashes all over the place...

The beans and peas were OK. The carrots are doing well...

There were also radishes and beets in that patch.