Frost damage on the squash plants. Even though they are snug under their tunnel, sometimes it just isn't enough and the edges get burnt.

The Nasturtiums (of Petal Power fame) stay nice and cozy under their tunnel but the edges are growing into the paths and they can't all fit under their plastic blanket.

The first eggplants among the tomatoes, Casper & Kermit (the tiny round, greenish one), would taste awesome in a stir fry or curry!

The 'Before' of the Emerald Evergreen Tomatoes. It was a jungle!

Half of the dome. The tomatoes are so high and make enough shade that it actually keeps the greenhouse a little cooler than the outside high temp.

The other half of the dome. The eggplant are in the foreground. There are three kinds: a stripey purple kind, a white kind, and one the makes a tiny round green fruit that is called Kermit.

The Emerald Evergreens with a super smiley unripe fruit atop two ripe ones

Bouquet making in the barn. Sometimes things gets messy before they get done.

Hella is smelling pretty and smiling again after getting sprayed by her skunk 'friend' last week and getting a good rub down with some deodorizers after. And the skunks have stayed away since so all of us are happy again. (skunks can be a major predator for poultry so I was needing to scare them away soon anyway. Hella ended up doing it for me but getting hit in the process. Way to take one for the team, Hella!)

The cherry tomatoes are like little globes of joy wrapped in sunshine! Each box is a mix of orange ones, red ones, yellow ones, black ones, stripey ones and others as I have about 8 different varieties growing.

Group playdate! All the chickens, roosters, ducks, drakes, Hella, and even some nosy neighbors gathered together. Hella, the kitty, is the tiny dot in the middle keeping an eye on those neighbors.

Green thumbs may be a prerequisite for growing things, but when you are pruning & clipping tomatoes you get green hands, fingers, and thumbs!

The clouds have returned, which both me and my crops are happy about.

The snapdragons are stealing the show in the field now and it's hard to keep them all picked on time. Luckily, they bloom successively up the stem and have a larger harvesting window than most blooms.

It's a miracle what a little organization can do. This week I got my shelf unit and some motion sensor lights installed in my cool room. The buckets of flowers don't need to be spread out on the floor (taking up way to much space) and I don't need to leave the door wide open to see (wasting all that precious cold air). More shelves will be arriving soon to tackle the pile of veggie totes and eggs!

The fence on the main Field Plot has been expanded to allow Oscar, the tractor, easy access as well as to make room for my new...

High Tunnels!!! In farmer-speak these are Caterpillar High Tunnels. Just like the little tunnels that I use on individual rows but bigger. They can cover 4 rows and I can walk into them! There are two here, each my 50ft bed length. They will make growing and harvesting in a place where I get frosts all throughout the year much easier! Now I just need to get to work assembling them, but first I need to prep the new ground.

The young ducks are close to full grown and may be laying sometime in September (no promises!). They have yet to be let out to explore like everyone else so visitors have to come to them.

Hella, the kitty, tried to make a new friend. Luckily, the little skunk wasn't concerned with her interest in what it was and I made sure the playdate ended there.

Each year, I promise myself that I won't let them turn into chaos, and each year they look like this. lol. There's always next year! Especially as this will be the last week of the sweet peas in bouquets. The heat is causing them to burst into bloom on ever shorter stems and I wanna give em enough time to turn those gorgeous, sweet smelling flowers into chubby, little round seeds!

Rosemary, one half of the Golden Girls, may be an elderly chicken but she knows special goodies when she sees em. Gotta put these outta her reach before she samples to test if they taste as good as they look.

The ripening begins! The first little cherry tomatoes in the dome are as good as gold!

While the cherry tomatoes are doing awesome! The bigger heirlooms have gone wild! (through no fault of their own) But I hack away at them little by little each day to tame and trellis this chaos before it envelopes the dome as they are currently tryin to do.

When harvesting flowers in the early morning, I often find a few slumberers waiting for the sun to warm them up. I like to imagine they like to hit the snooze button a few times before they are ready for a busy day.