Amish Farm and Gardening Today.. 7/16/2011

I went to the Amish farm this morning to pick up some cantaloupe, fresh onions, white corn on the cob, peaches, and a few other vegetables.  I just wanted to post a few pictures of what Amish farms in our area look like at this time of the year.  Most of the Amish do farm the old-fashioned way and different Amish farms do grow different crops.  When I stopped at the Amish farm, the farmer was in the field with his horses, plowing between the rows.  The corn is growing taller at this time of the year. There are soybeans planted right next to the cut hay.  The field corn is grown for livestock and other things.  We also have the greatest sweet corn that is white.  I really enjoy this time of the year and eating sweet corn.  Our peaches aren't free-stone yet, but soon will be.  I also took a picture of the hay that was just cut.  The smaller corn is sweet corn.  Field corn does grow much higher, but sweet corn grows much smaller.  The Amish farmer also has tobacco planted.

I did gardening most of the rest of the day, pulling weeds and generally anything outside that needed finished.  It was really a nice day in our area without much humidity and it wasn't really hot.  Those are my favorite kind of days.  More flowers are blooming, and my tomatoes and eggplants are also growing.  I found one hornworm on my one tomato plant today, but when I went inside to get a paper towel to take it off the underside of the tomato leaf, I couldn't find it when I went back outside.  That darn tomato hornworm will have to go..lol   It does have the parasitic wasps larvae on it.  I had those darn tomato hornworms last year, but I guess I will get rid of them, just like I did last year.

I made some meat balls and used the last of Les's sauce I had frozen from last year, from the tomatoes I grew.  I don't know if I am going to add spaghetti to the meat balls with the sauce or not.  I am a little late eating again, but that is okay.

All in all, another great day! :)

Norma