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Thursday, September 7, 2017

Day After Irrigation


We picked our pole beans as soon as it was light enough to see.  We didn't get many.  Our plants have not produced well.  Carol washed them.  We put them a grocery bag and we gave them to one of our neighbors.

Our neighbor, Karen, has a beautiful flower bed.  I had to take a picture.  Many of those plants she got from us.
I picked the tomatoes from our garden.  There were two totes.  One full and the other one half full.  She peeled all of them and put in quart bottles.  There were fourteen quarts.
While Carol was processing the tomatoes,  I picked two buckets of these large Roma type tomatoes.  I put the in the trunk and was ready drive one block north where one of our friends live.  I started to back out of the garage, she and another friends walked up pushing a stroller and a new baby tied in front of her.  Her husband helped build our patio.  She wanted to see our gardens.  I showed them our gardens.
Before lunch I removed all the irrigation pipes and put them away for the next water turn.  That may not happen until next spring.

One of the last things that we looked at was the Italian squash.  Pictured below is the hoop house.
Later in the day we drove to Fillmore to make a bank deposit and two by a few things at the hardware store.  Tonight we picked more cucumbers.  Hope to get rid of them tomorrow.

Comments and questions are welcomed.

Monday, September 12, 2016

Canning Peaches


As soon as it was light this morning, we were in the garden picking beans.  I think that we got about a peck of green beans.  Carol washed them and took them to one of our neighbors on the other side of Town.

Last Friday, I picked a couple of bushels of peaches.
 They were not very big, but has big taste.  I tried to peel them, but it was difficult.  I figured out how to peel them after a couple sessions on You Tube.  The key was to let them sit, soften, a couple of days.  Today was the third day.  Carol put them in boiling water for 30 seconds, and the skins peeled right off.  by the time we finished peeling we had 48 half pints.
We haven't canned peaches for a long time.  She put them in a water bath for twenty minutes.  We finished around 11:30.



That was about it for the day.