Spooky Garden Stuff

It's hard to believe Halloween is only a couple months away. It's been a typically hot and humid August here and consequently we are buried up to our eyeballs in fresh tomatoes - not that I'm complaining, but it will be nice to have a change of seasons.

Burt, on the other hand, is always happy with whatever season it is.

Between the heat, torrential downpours and voracious mosquitoes, our garden has been left on its own for most of the summer. It's kind of a shame because puttering away among the flowers and veggies is a lot of fun. At least it doesn't need much assistance at this stage of the growing season just the occasional grab and run with whatever is ripe. I actually planted these cabbages just for the butterflies but they even seem to be doing okay without any extra care.

The spiders are back in force and have taken over the backyard, as usual. It's creepy to walk face first into their giant webs. Ugh! Fortunately, the little buggers are only half their normal size this year, or could it be that the weeds are taller? In the past, they have been these huge, hairy whoppers, the size of a cherry tomato. Even the wasps avoided them. Maybe, with all the extra bugs around to gorge themselves on, the next generation will be back to their former girth. Would that be a good thing though?

So far we have two Ghost pumpkins from a volunteer vine. It's still too early to pick them so Burt decided peppers might be fun to try to carve into a jack-o'-lanterns instead.

Obviously, these Ghost Peppers, Habaneros and whatever that large thing that I don't remember planting is called, aren't suitable candidates for carving. Too small, too hot and way too weird. 

 

So Burt went to the grocery store and picked up an assortment of bell peppers.

It's funny how almost everything is easier to carve into a jack-o-lantern than a pumpkin.

The carving went surprisingly fast. 

Lighting was sort of a challenge and took some experimenting but Kibitz was very proud of his handiwork. So what will they decide to carve up next? Any ideas?

Thanks for stopping by, have a great week!