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Ah, the joy, the satisfaction, the aching back and legs. Today marks the first round of tomato canning from the garden. A small batch, 10 1/2 quarts. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="410" caption="Tomato Puree"] [/caption]
I hate it while I’m doing it, but I love it when I can grab a big jar out of the pantry on a snowy winter day. Onward…to the Advil bottle. Putting in the garden. Some of the plants got a little nipped by a rogue frost last week, but seem to have survived. We have doubled the size of the garden this year. The DR Power Tiller has made this possible. We have sections of the garden area that are very heavy in clay. I don’t think we could have increased the size in time for plant with our walk behind tiller. I’ll post pictures later, but here’s a run down of what is planted in the ‘big’ garden so far: Peas and Beans Alaska peas (6) California Black Eyed Cow Peas (9) Kentucky Wonder Bean (11) Misc. Veg Brussel Sprouts (3) Cauliflower (3) Golden Acre Cabbage (3) Green Comet Broccoli (3) Onion (2) Peppers Baby Bell (2) Excusion II (2) Flamingo (2) Garden Salsa (4) Jalapeno (2) Marcato (2) Summer Sweet (2) Sweet Banana Valencia Orange (2) Corn Honey Pearl (6) Peaches & Cream (27) Ruby Red (19) Sugar Dots (12) Eggplant Fairy Tale Gretel Tomatos Alaska Fancy Amish Paste (7) Berkley Tie Dye Big Rainbow (4) Black Sea Man (4) Black Zebra Caro Rich Carolina Gold (2) Celebrity Purple Cherokee (2) Dr. Wyche Glacer Green Zebra (2) Husky Gold Jubilee Mortgage Lifter Mr. Stripey 92) Northern Lights (2) Old German (3) Primo Red (2) Red Currant (2) Roma (2) SubArctic (3) Super Bush Waspinicon Peach Yellow  Leave a comment  In the Garden, The veg garden  Alaska Peas, Alaskan Fancy, amish paste, bean, Berkley Tie Dye, Big Rainbow, Black Sea Man, Black Zebra, Brussel Sprouts, California Black Eyed Cow Peas, Caro Rich, Carolina Gold, Cauliflower, Celebrity, Cherokee Purple, Dr. Wyche, Excusion II, Fairy Tale, Flamingo, Garden Salsa, Glacier, Golden Acre Cabbage, Green Comet, green zebra, Gretel, Honey Pearl, Husky Gold, Jalapeno, Jubilee, Kentucky Wonder Bean, Marcato, mortgage lifter, Mr. Stripey, northern lights, Old German, Onion, Peaches & Cream, peppers, Primo Red, Red Current, Red Ruby, Roma, Sugar Dots, Summer Sweet, Super Bush, Sweet Banana Pepper, tomato, Valencia Orange, Waspinicon Peach, Yellow Tomato I looked at the blog(s) today and noticed that I have not posted since, well, forever. We are still here. Much canning of tomatoes and assorted veggies, a big ol’ batch of apple butter & apple pie filing, and canned butter (oh yes, you can do that) has taken a big chunk of time. There was also the clay oven we build that took a few weekends, see here. Then, I just got tired… Oh! Also, I decided to try knitting. Just another thing to do. Boy, am I having trouble with tension. The end of my rows are fine, but the middle seems to be just really so tight. Any suggestions on that? Hopefully, things will start to settle down to a more normal pace and I can post a bit more frequently. Except for, you know, that whole holiday thing… <sigh> We spent a great deal of time processing veggies this weekend. The tomatoes are coming pretty fast & furious now….we are just trying to keep up. We haven’t seen the big 3 or 4 pounder yet, but we have gotten some big. freakin’. tomatoes. A one pound seven ounce Ele (or Elie or Ely). It’s a beautiful yellow orange tomato. Few seeds and a nice semi-sweet flavor.
The big Purple Cherokee. One pound five. I like the smaller ones better, it seems to me they have a richer flavor.
Making tomato puree. Psychedelic!!!
Dennis smoked a pork shoulder and a kielbasa which turned out just delicious.
After the pork came out of the smoker, we sliced some of our eggplant and then vacuum packed them and popped them in the freezer.
Oh, I also made spiced blueberry jam. I think I might have slept at some point too………. |
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