Garden Update

This is a picture of our cushaw plant.  It's a type of squash, kinda like a cross between butternut and pumpkin.  As soon as the corn was done and cleared out, this thing took over!  But for the longest time we only got male flowers.  It wasn't until about 6 weeks ago when we first saw some female flowers.  Now we are expecting around 4 cushaws that is, if the plant doesn't die.  The squash borers got to it.  I hate those bugs!  So we will see what happens.  Our garden is pretty much done now.  The zucchini produced one last humongo zucchini before it died (thank you squash borers and squash bugs) and the tomatoes are pretty much done producing and is now being eaten by grasshoppers.

Our green pepper plant has also been discovered by I'm guessing grasshoppers too, or some other kind of hungry bug that was so hungry it ate half a pepper.  Sometimes I wonder why bother having a garden.  Definitely not to save money!  We spend more watering it than we would ever spend on the amount of produce we get.  I just hope we get some squash before the plant dies.

Update 8/21/13:  We decided to pick our squash since the plant was infested with squash borers.  We got a happy little family of cushaw squash!  The weird thing is right after we picked the squash, Brent cut the vine right where it was coming out of the ground, and half a week later the plant is still alive!!!  We think it must have shot out some roots from elsewhere on the vine which are helping it to stay alive.  Now we are having fun trying to see how long it will be before it wilts and dies.

In other news, Emma is walking about 50% of the time now.  She really took off at the beginning of this month.  I had to go and buy her some shoes.  She loves to play outside.  Adam does too, it's just too hot to play for long periods of time.  Even in the shade.

 These are the most recent pictures of the kids, taken at lunch time almost 2 weeks ago.  Yes, Emma is sticking her finger up her nose to be funny.  She also does it for what I'm guessing are security reasons.  Some kids suck their thumb, she puts her finger up her nose.  We will find her randomly sitting around with her finger up her nose, and when we pull it out she puts it back in because she thinks it's a game.  Hopefully she'll grow out of it.