We started by harvesting lots of tomatoes, hot peppers, cucmbers, raspberries and a few summer squash, which are starting to really slow down, thank goodness. The tomatoes and apples are taking so much of our time that we don't have time to chop and blanch the squash. We worked on slicing apples for another batch of applesauce and also slicing tomatoes and cooking them down for tomato sauce. The cucumbers were added to the "bucket pickles" that we started last week and the raspberries were frozen for jam-making in the future. The hot peppers went into the refrigerator and will either be dried for hot pepper flakes or will be incorporated into our extraordinary hot 'n sweet pepper relish. But for Wednesday, it will be corn, corn, corn. We will be receiving 500 ears of sweet corn which we will peel, blanch, cut, bag and freeze. If you'd like to join us for this community-wide event, please do! We will start at 8am this Wednesday in front of the gym. See you there! -Celia
PS - We'd love it if you would consider being a follower for this blog or posting a comment! Thanks!
Willie cores tomatoes to be cooked down for sauce
Beautiful tomatoes!
Mitchell, Pio, Carly and Julia slice up apples to be made into applesauce
Pio helps with the slicin' and dicin'
Red hot peppers
Colin and Tamara harvest raspberries
The garden cat loves Tamara
Great pictures. The vegtables jump right out at you, especially the red hot peppers.
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Celia, it was great seeing you yesterday...love the blog... but b/c i am technologically challenged, i can't figure out how to "become" a follower!!!!
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