Harvest is good and so are these pictures
August 5, 2012 by Soulsby Farm - A Very Small Farm
Posted in Farm, Gardening | Tagged deer, dragonfly close up, farm photos, Farm Pics, garden harvest, garden pics, Tomato, vegetable garden | 41 Comments
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Wow – There is a deer in the last photo! Great photos and lovely to see your garden and what you will be harvesting!
With so many suffering from drought, it’s nice to see such a thriving farm!
Everything (except the flies) look delicious!!
Kinda off-topic but the pumpkins in your header made me think of my question. This is my first year growing pumpkins and I have several that are solid orange, What do I do now? Harvest and store in a cool dry place? Leave on the vine a while longer?
Cool photos DS. you sure that’s a dragonfly on the house fly? looks like some type of predatory bee or a horse fly. just curious
It’s a robber fly. I asked Denise Elsworth from OSU who did a guest blog on mound bees for me.
Hey Dan! Awesome photographs and plentiful harvests! Hope that deer is on the outside of your fence, as they LOVE pumpkins!
Great photos of a productive and sustainable family farm. Thanks for sharing with us.
Those are some very nice looking tomatoes. And whether that bug is a dragonfly or a horsefly, I’ve seen the same bug carrying off some of my honey bees.
I’ve seen robber flies killing bees, too. I respect them as predators, but I still find them rather horrible.
What a wonderful looking farm. Looks like a lot of work, but a lot of satisfaction too. I just put up 15 pts of B & B pickles, and 7 p ts of dill chips. I’m having so much fun.
Your garden looks wonderful! Love the deer just hanging around!
Is that dragonfly eating that housefly? O.o I love, love the tomato shot.
I have to plant more peppers next year! That looks like a moose!
Hooray: beautiful, and thank you!
It looks like you are entering the ‘glorious’ part of the season! Beautiful produce reaching its prime!
Beautiful! Good luck with the rest of your harvest.
love the harvest story! and I love that little handsome dude!!!
Thanks for the like I like yours too! But I am so not feeling the flies photo!
Be sure to let us know when you have small pumpkins. I am very curious how long it takes for them to mature.
yes you’re right, the photos are lovely. You have a lot of squashes, pumpkins or whatever growing there. My tomatoes are at last embryos and green. We might get to eat them before the autumn sets in! However, the potatoes we dug up today were delicious. I was worried because of the excessive rain we’ve had this summer, but the potatoes liked it apparently!
How did you get the flies to stand still long enough for such a great pic? Are they tame in your neck of the woods?
Bet that deer would have a grand time in the pumpkin patch.
You are so right…beautiful! Debra
congrats on your harvest . and thanks for sharing such great photos!
Fabulous pictures and beautiful garden harvest. Everything is going to taste soooo good.
Fantastic!!!
I loved them all…well except for the flies that were mating…lol.
Hey . . . what are those flies–
Oh.
Yes. The insect on top is a robber fly. It injects a toxin into its prey that turns the insides to liquid and then it sucks it out.
your garden is beautiful. ours was destroyed by hungry little green and black caterpillars, except for the mint. evidently they don’t like mint.
Actually, I think the harvest — and the pictures — are more than good. Enjoy the fruits and vegetables of your labor!
Amazing! Everything looks so healthy and productive! I just have a home garden but I found this year peppers and celery the big winners against all the heat waves we’ve had here.
Makes my mouth water–well not the flies–but the yummy veggies. What a bountiful year.
I love the deer eyeing up the pumpkin patch.
Great pictures! I have a question about your beautiful looking pumpkin plants. I had a horrible year this year with vine borers both on my pumpkins and zucchini (the only squash I had) as well as squash beetles and cucumber beetles. How do you control these pests? I didn’t have ANY last year and I’m thinking they may have come in with the topsoil. I picked off the squash bugs, attempted to pick off the cucumber beetles (they are FAST!) but I didn’t pick out the vine borers… do you just have good luck or did you deal with all the pests that arose immeditely? (I’m hoping you’ll say good luck because maybe I’ll be able to have more good luck in a year or two of not having any of these hollow vined plants for the bugs to live in–I’m mostly concerned with the vine borers).
Comparing your rural farm to my inner city allotment in rainy Manchester is fascinating – I am also just at the beginning of so have lots to learn. Love the blog.
Congratulations! I just nominated you for the Dining Blogger Award! Check it out… http://forhisgloryandpraise.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/now-for-a-few-awards-i-designed/
Love the tomatoes! And that close-up of the fly being eaten… wow.
Love the fly having dinner…and so good to see what good dinners you will be having. Gardening is so good for the soul as well as body.
Great photos! Wish I lived where you live this year. Did you see my blog called “Green Thumb! Maybe…or Maybe Not?” It showed what a lot of us in Michigan are going through. One question, why the flies? lol