Sunday, August 16, 2009

tomatoes!

We finished pulling out our tomato plants yesterday :( The tomato blight has been devastating in our area this year. I've had a few tomatoes to enjoy that we picked green and let ripen, but if they were picked after the blight got to the plant they just turn black before ripening.
The glads have been gorgeous this year - I've been enjoying them cut in bouquets for the house and honey house.
My pie pumpkins are all starting to turn orange, so hopefully I'll have some to freeze.
The shell beans, black turtle, aren't looking too healthy but I'll wait for them to dry and hopefully have a few for the winter.
Yesterday I canned some summer squash (an experiment) and some dilly beans. The day before I made a batch of sweet relish, hopefully I'll get enough cukes to make some dill relish too.
The corn is DELISH this year, at least the honey select is - it was the first to ripen. The peaches are starting to ripen and we should have about a bushel of them sometime this week. Between the deer and the rain we'll have zero shiro plums.

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