The Yadkin Yard is a Good Garden Yard -- Part 2

The Speckled Swan gourds took off, went crazy, or as my grandma used to say "went down yonder"!!  Farmer Lynn had to check on the vines about twice a day to keep them from trying to grab onto things they shouldn't.  They're all across the back, up the supports for the sunroom and the screened porch, up and across a maple tree -- they're everywhere.  I'm looking forward to to fixing them up for the birds to nest in.  Maybe some Purple Martins will come stay with us!

    They're all across the back, up the supports for the sunroom and the screened porch, up and acrossa maple tree -- they're everywhere.  I'm looking forward to to fixing them up for the birds to nest in.  Maybe some Purple Martins will come stay with us!

The other bumper crop this year was sunflowers.  Farmer Lynn planted the seeds in the garden originally, but soon afterwards we had a huge flooding rain that moved around a lot of the freshly-planted garden seeds.  A lot of the sunflowers ended up (downhill of course) in the reforesting area.  They're hard to get to down there for us, but the birds will enjoy them.  We do need to reach a few in order to save seeds for next year.

Here's the garden now.  We have plenty of watermelons that will be ready soon.  We both love watermelons and so do our families, so we're very pleased at how well they're turning out.  

The corn just didn't get enough water this year and the soil was so hard.  It was still tasty though.  These marigolds are from seeds that Farmer Lynn has planted, saved seeds, planted, saved seeds, for 18 years now.  They're a very pretty color and add nice bunches of color to the garden and that whole side yard actually.  

The Yadkin Yard is a Good Garden Yard.