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The Harvest...
Sep. 8th, 2005 10:36 pmSo, you may be asking: Partly, you're unemployed, what do you do with all that free time now that your daughter is back in school?
Well, let me tell you: gardening (along with my folks).
We pulled alost 700 ears of sweet corn from the corn patch. Gave about 300 of it away, ate a lot and froze more than 50 quarts of corn.
We canned 12 quarts crab-apple juice that we will make jelly out of later.
We made 6 quarts corn salsa, and plan on making more in the next week.
We made 21+ quarts of tomato soup (the best tomato soup in the world) and canned that.
We canned 14 pints of tomato juice -- ready for drinking or use.
I have baked 3 to 5 loaves of bread each week, splitting it between my folks and us.
We picked, cleaned, cut and froze/ate/used 10 gallon bags of green beans.
We still have several trees full of apples that we will have to pick and process.
We made three gallons of dill pickles and at least 20 pints of sweet Christmas pickles.
We have most of the onions pulled and hung up to dry.
The potatoes are still in the ground. They will have to be dug and washed ans stored.
The tomatoes are growing like gangbusters, unless we make catsup, there is more tomato soup in our future.
We killed all the zucchini because it was taking over the garden. Next year: only two zucchini plants.
The carrots are huge and they will have to be dug up before they are too heavy to lift.
There this squash... but those will be stored in the fruit cellar, along with the potatoes and onions.
We are planning on going choke cherry picking and on making choke cherry jelly. Great stuff, if you've ever managed to get some.
I feel like I've left something out. The peas were done early this year and ate most of them although we must have frozen 7 or 8 quart bags of them.
Wait: Chickens, geese and ducks. We already had one harvest of chickens and they are safely frozen -- except for those we've eaten. The second batch is quickly becoming large roaster size, the geese and ducks are way past the cute and cuddly stage. So, they are very short for the world.
All in all, I'm not lacking for things to do. If I get a couple days at my home, I have plans. Like cleaning my desk, writing and making a webpage.
Doesn't look like that will happen any time soon.
I may not be working, but I am putting food on the table (and in the freezer and fruit cellar and...)
Well, let me tell you: gardening (along with my folks).
We pulled alost 700 ears of sweet corn from the corn patch. Gave about 300 of it away, ate a lot and froze more than 50 quarts of corn.
We canned 12 quarts crab-apple juice that we will make jelly out of later.
We made 6 quarts corn salsa, and plan on making more in the next week.
We made 21+ quarts of tomato soup (the best tomato soup in the world) and canned that.
We canned 14 pints of tomato juice -- ready for drinking or use.
I have baked 3 to 5 loaves of bread each week, splitting it between my folks and us.
We picked, cleaned, cut and froze/ate/used 10 gallon bags of green beans.
We still have several trees full of apples that we will have to pick and process.
We made three gallons of dill pickles and at least 20 pints of sweet Christmas pickles.
We have most of the onions pulled and hung up to dry.
The potatoes are still in the ground. They will have to be dug and washed ans stored.
The tomatoes are growing like gangbusters, unless we make catsup, there is more tomato soup in our future.
We killed all the zucchini because it was taking over the garden. Next year: only two zucchini plants.
The carrots are huge and they will have to be dug up before they are too heavy to lift.
There this squash... but those will be stored in the fruit cellar, along with the potatoes and onions.
We are planning on going choke cherry picking and on making choke cherry jelly. Great stuff, if you've ever managed to get some.
I feel like I've left something out. The peas were done early this year and ate most of them although we must have frozen 7 or 8 quart bags of them.
Wait: Chickens, geese and ducks. We already had one harvest of chickens and they are safely frozen -- except for those we've eaten. The second batch is quickly becoming large roaster size, the geese and ducks are way past the cute and cuddly stage. So, they are very short for the world.
All in all, I'm not lacking for things to do. If I get a couple days at my home, I have plans. Like cleaning my desk, writing and making a webpage.
Doesn't look like that will happen any time soon.
I may not be working, but I am putting food on the table (and in the freezer and fruit cellar and...)
