harvesting the garden

So even though at my most recent Dr. appt., he said, "Well, you're definitely 4 cm...." this baby is still hanging out inside.  So we've been using the time to get stuff done.  This week we've been slowly harvesting the garden.

Drake helped me pick a bunch of red grape and gold cherry tomatoes.

We never picked our artichokes, but they blossomed really pretty. 

The bees love them. 

We pulled out a few tomato plants from the garden that we had not planted.  They just started growing on their own, so we let them.  We picked all the green tomatoes off to ripen up on their own, and we still don't know what kind of tomatoes they are. 

We made some cucumber boats with the too-big-to-use cucumbers. 

Graham relaxed in the shade a lot. 

Drake wanted to start in on one of the sunflowers. 

I picked a few mini pumpkins for decoration that Graham grew in his garden. 

Earlier this week I preserved most of the corn that was picked, and Shad and the boys threw the corn stalks over the fence to the horses. 

Shad planted a globe willow.

The drip system was put away. 

The boys "planted" some corn stalks in random places. 

And once my nine-month pregnant self got over the fact that the kids ruined a bunch of perfectly good produce, I took pictures.

 I probably shouldn't be upset about losing a few zucchini, since we had plenty.

I don't even know what they used to carve the faces, but I have to admit they were creative.

We still have a few things in the garden to take care of, but I'm letting Shad do it when he wants.  We didn't really figure into the picture that I would be due to have a baby when it was time to harvest... but until this baby decides to join us, we'll keep trying to get done what we can!