The new Mint plant, some garden updates and a beer quickie..

Some updates to the garden..

Check this thing! Melons and Cucumbers and one watermelon of the the left side, still growing. We're going to regret planting this soon enough, but it's still funny to watch it grow..

My new Mint plant. Thanks Crystal! I got a tiny little rootlet that was creeping out of it's boundaries from my pal Crystal, and got it potted up there. We'll see how it's doing as time goes by. Hers was doing well enough in the front bed at her place and smelled like a million bucks. She tells me it's spearmint. I intend to keep thing one indoors in the winter to keep it going, and perhaps do a small potted herb garden thingy to amuse myself when my big garden is nuked in the winter. Still, that cold frame idea I've been pondering has me intrigued.. I might eek out something well into November if I do that right..

Here's me and a couple of chickens, taken yesterday, pulling grubs from the exposed part of the bed where I pulled up the beans and bolted lettuce:

I was listening to some tunes while doing this and didn't see the wife sneak up on me with the camera to take these shots.. otherwise, I might have dressed more appropriately for the pics. The other chickens were nearby, behind the tomato plants, but weren't enjoying the huge amount of fats grubs that these two Barred Rocks were as I pulled the pests from the ground and tossed 'em to them.

Here's a couple shots of the big tomatoes on the downhill side of the astern bed, which are so out of control from improper staking (raises hand!) that I had to go horizontal with them to keep 'em growing. There's so many potential tomatos here it's unreal.. next year, I'll know what I'm doing more and have a much better setup installed.

This is the cherry tomatos here (below), and there's bunches more of these clusters to go...

I didn't notice this one was split until after I came inside and blew this up on the monitor.. I kinda freehanded this shot cause it's well into the middle of the grouping of plants. I'll go pull this one out of here in a few minutes and see what it looks like...

Here's the now half-empty downhill bed, which we're readying for some more fall lettuce and maybe some garlic or onions.

And here's a pic of that poor bugger off in the 'big rock' garden all by it's lonesome.. it's actually doing sorta fine over there.

In beer news, I kegged up the Berliner yesterday and that's on standby to get carb'ed, but it's waiting it's turn behind the other beers I have to get ready for Avalon next month. The Avalon beer itself it pretty much done, just waiting another day or so before I keg that up into a couple of kegs.. one for the beach and one for here. I gotta get my new idea for an Oat Stout brewed up pretty quick, cause I'm starting to get low on Tap #2 where my dark beers reside.. The Belg. Stout is still going strong and tastes as good as ever, though so that'll tide me over till I can get something else brewed up. Results from the competition some of the Commandos entered should be up in the next couple days, too.. stand by for those results. That's all for now..