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Sunday, August 9, 2020

What was I thinking?

So as know this month was going to busy anyways.... new grandbaby, youngest moving into dorm...

I decided to start a preserving challenge...it started off good.

Day 1

1 pint of tomatoes

Day 2

1 cup shredded zucchini

picked 1 quart blackberries

2 half-pints cowboy candy

Day 3

4 half-pints root beer jelly

1 quart bag of peeled tomatoes

Day 4

family time

but did get some of the canned food stocked up

Day 5

4 pints of blackberry preserves

hmm I wonder if this would be good on some vanilla ice cream

hmmm YES

Day 6

1 pint of home-made ketchup

Day 7

2 pints of diced tomatoes

plus quart bag of cherry tomatoes

Day 8

roasted tomatoes ( them cherry tomatoes), canned 1 pint of these

Day 9

( sorry no photo) 4 pints of blackberry preserves ( I see vanilla ice cream topped with this in the near future), plus 2 pints diced tomatoes...

What will Day 10, 11,12 preserving be...who knows...but Like I said what was I thinking this month is sooo busy..

Sunday, September 4, 2016

Here it is almost Fall of the year. Looking back my garden and me didn't produce a whole lot for the year...Last Winter while I was planning on what I would plant in my wee garden I had great plans, Then the new year came and I seemed alittle slower about getting things started...I did planted some tomatoes , peppers inside before danger of the first frost, I don't know if I planted them too early or to late, they didn't make it. I had to buy some tomato plants and a few pepper plants ...The tomatoes really didn't produce a whole lot, the ones that did make it...or didn't get eaten by critters.
I did manage to plant some cantaloupe and did harvest about three of them and, they were yummy. But I did want to plant more so I could give away or possibly sell. I did manage to plant some watermelon as well, still waiting on them to be harvested. I also planted pumpkin, not doing good at all, I think I planted it too late...Oh how I wanted to eat fresh watermelon and have a pumpkin from my own garden instead of buying from the store....You know, it is so much nicer to come from your own garden instead of the store or your local farmers market stand...
But looking back on this past year, most of the time I really didn't feel that great to be working in the garden, My back did hurt a lot and still does. The weeds have taken over in some areas of my garden...I am trying to battle back even with my back hurting and bouts of sickness( diarrhea, yes , I said, and other things )
So now that it is fall weather I have started cleaning up the garden and working on redoing some parts of it. Hopefully I will get the parts done that I am redoing before next Spring. I want to do better in the garden next Spring. I do want to feel better as well.....
Well that is all for now I need to go and do my morning chores....yes I wrote this this morning

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Day 262...did to much...

I did to much this morning...i dug up all of my cannas, after cutting a few of them down....

now resting for the rest of the day...or maybe starting figuring out where to put all of the houseplants...i counted the other day and i have 30 of them....i have added a few of them...