Processing seven pints of 'maters. A couple of those are just juice, but it is so good in soup or beans.

Tomorrow, the big push to pick grapes, and I'm going to try to talk my friend into entering mustang grape jelly at the State Fair this year. (He won the blue ribbon for his strawberry jelly last year.)

About ready to pull out a few big, leggy, mite-ridden tomato plants and move to a fresh spot and plant some new ones for fall. The type called Super Fantastic has been a winner for me this year, along with some largish cherry tomatoes. (I froze a whole cookie sheet of them this evening, skin and all, and will bag them tomorrow. The skins slip right off after they've been frozen.) Watching the corn. I had to use BT this week, another worm chowing down in the flowering parts. Who knows what we'll get there.

I have a question: the bush beans have lots of flowers but very few beans. They're all leaf, and kind of sloppy. Time to pull them out? Will they start putting out more beans when it cools, or should I start some new ones for fall?

SRS