As always, the pattern for this block will be free until the end of the month and then move to the pattern store when the next block is published in October.Ĭlick to download Hunny Bunnies Block #9 pattern (English/Imperial)ĬOMMENTS CATEGORIES: Block/Pattern of the Month TAGS: Appliqué, Quilt While it is so much easier to just stuff wet clothes into the dryer than hanging them on the line, nothing feels and smells as good as freshly sun/wind-dried laundry. Our bunny friend is using the garden for a different purpose this month, hanging up laundry. The peas are flowering and producing pods, and I have more cucumbers and butternut squash than ever before. Aside from the occasional sour mik smell and the fact that the milk residue builds up on the leaves which doesn’t look too pretty it seems to be working really well. That sounded easy enough, and as soon as the second batch of peas emerged in July I have been spraying the peas, cucumbers and squash plants.
Somebody in my gardening group said that spraying them with a solution of half milk and half water every few days as a preventive measure works really well, something about the milk protein reacting with the sunlight (?). With our climate here it usually takes over at some point, and while the squashes do mostly okay, last year I had to pull my second batch of peas in mid-August because all the plants were so heavily covered in mildew that they were just done. My garden is doing great, and I seem to be able to keep the powdery mildew away for longer this year… keeping fingers crossed.
And while I don’t like that it is getting darker every morning, I do enjoy that it is cooler and doesn’t usually heat up as quickly anymore. However we had cool and rainy weather until the end of June, so I guess it’s no surprise that only two months of proper summer weather feels a bit short. Where did summer go? I can’t believe it’s already September.