Gardening Gardening

Today's lunch
Pineapple tomato sammy.
What a beauty

(Background 27 pints green beens)
(Store bought 1/2 bushel)

 

Starting a batch of sauce. (3 gallons)

 

That cat looks muscular. There must be good hunting in the area.

 

when I have more than I can use or hand out, I’ll freeze them like cue balls.
A later time, mid winter is my plan, I’ll pull them out on like a Thursday and let them thaw a bit to make sauce.
At that point they fall right out of the skin and they’re already pretty pulpy.
Easy to spoon out core or stem as it cooks down.
Helps occupy a Saturday or Sunday.

 

Picked more from my garden today.

 

We threatened to do that, but when Miss July gears up for canning, she gets into it.
So far we've canned
Cherries
Green beans
Beets
Spaghetti sauce
Stewed tomatoes
Peaches

Oh man those tomatoes look good, Jason!

 

Hoping to get another 30-40# of tomatoes next week (and another 7-8 qts of spag. sauce)

 

Looks great!

 

Asparagus super crown
Chocolate Cherry Tomatoes. These are very tasty, resistant to splitting, and very prolific producers.
A few goodies from the garden for tonight’s dinner, including some large garlic cloves.

 

Great harvest hovlandhomestead

 

Thanks eatonpcat . The variety of live food we can grow and can eat within minutes of being harvested can’t be bought.

 

never heard of them. They look so good.

 

That looks like a fat slice would be SOOOOOO good between two slices of bread with a little mayo.

 

Between the deer, fences that are too short and the severe drought here I'm not getting much this year for my efforts. Rhubarb dried up, blueberries turned blue and hard as a rock, all my fruit trees dropped their fruit, except for a kieffer pear - the fruit all dried up and have big cracks - like miniature grand canyons. Never seen anything like it.

Depth of the cracks doesn't show too well in the pic.
One possible advantage to no rain is very little tomato blight, so I have a few tomatoes. They're late ( I started late) but they're coming.
I've been watering like crazy and anything that hasn't gotten water is dead. Even weeds.
We got 0.20 inches of rain in July and 0.10 inches so far in August.
Awful heat without thunderstorms. Weird Summer.

 

Those orange peppers look interesting.

 

Maybe a Helios - a hab hybrid. Johnny's seeds has had them.They're either milder or earlier or both. Habs are a bit too hot for me so I have grown the ones with absolutely no heat, but they don't taste all that.