Relish to Sweet Corn in the Freezer

As soon as breakfast was over we began our relish production.  Cucumbers from the garden and bell peppers from the market.

Before lunch I worked with the native plants.  I removed dead/empty tubes, and combined the together where removed five trays.  Save some time on watering.  Bristle cone pine trees below with empty cells and weeds.

 Gambel oak.  There were about 75 to start with and now there is about 60.

 Pinyon pine below. Some are two hears old, some are one year old and the rest are seedling that germinated this winter and spring.

This tray has been looking like this all winter.

 
Here is how it looks today.

 I went out to water around 2:30.  I decided to pull weeds in house one.  I pulled some weeds in house one.  It was hot in there and cloudy and the wind began to blow some.  It cooled of and I got most of the weeds in the egg plant on the west side.  It looks pretty good now.

The wind blew the west half of the bean trellis over. Carol helped me put it back together.  It nearly came apart later and a small conduit pipe was the only thing hold it together.   I got some twine and a stake and pulled it all back together.
 
The orange twine is tied to the post in the upper right hand corner and tied to the stake and the bottom left hand corner.

This  how it looks now.

This evening before super I picked all of the corn, peaches and cream, on the two early rows.  I filled two big buckets and an egg basket.  With a couple of chairs, some containers and two knives, we shucked the corn and put the shucks on an old sheet..

When finished, I pulled the four corners together.  On the sheet were earwigs, sap beetles, and corn worms with corn cornels. There also were a few ears of corn that were so infested sap beetles they were also with the shucks.

The chickens go right after the bugs and cornels of corn.

We cut the corn of the cobs which is a sticky job as the corn has a lot of sugar in it.  Carol boiled it for three minutes.  We cut on four cookie sheets, then put the sheets in the freezer.  An hour later we put the corn in zip bags and then in the freezer.

Found squash bugs.  Four on Roberts squash and a bunch on the pumpkin gourds.

Questions and Comments are welcomed.