August 2015

August is the start of harvesting abundance at Frugalbundance, and this was our best year ever for the garden, by far.

Here's our garlic harvest, some of the biggest bulbs we've ever grown, about 360 of them.  I'm thinking, if it takes two wheelbarrows to carry the garlic, we might be finally growing enough!

The squash plants and weeds had a free for all in the garden to see who could grow the fastest, and the thankfully, the squash won.  Other than weed wacking the paths until the squash vines made that impossible, and Gerald doing some great hand weeding of garlic, onions, strawberries and potatoes back in May and June, we let the weeds and food plants battle it out, mainly because we didn't really have the time to do otherwise.

This was a really wet year for us, and we had plenty of water for the entire season, which for us is a rarity.

The shed got enclosed, and the first of two side sheds put on, with plenty of shelving for storage.  The happy pack rats moved right in, but only in the outside portion.  Linc finally emptied all of his tools out of the Toyota moving truck that we drove here five years ago, and spent a few days rediscovering and organizing them inside the much roomier shed.  Wow, to be able to find tools and supplies again - so nice!