Tomatillo salsa day. I froze two big ziplocs of tomatillos (in skin) and that made about a double batch of salsa.
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Month: August 2020
Planted
Cilantro and basil
Today
Lots of tomatillos, and the swuash are back
Transplanted some kale and chard
Oh Deer
So, I knew we were taking a risk clearing out some of the blackberry without putting up a fence between the garden and the field- and after the field got mowed right up to our property a furry friend starting grazing- specifically on the yellow beans, green beans, and raspberry– although now he’s moved on to the beets and carrot tops. Les sigh.
He has lots of options though, so P put in poles to make the beans grow higher.
Todays haul wasn’t half bad.
Canning and salsa
We had a good haul of green beans, so today we canned them. (This picture was a little too much for the full load. I’ll cook the rest tonight).
And now we’re roasting tomatillos, onions, and jalapenos for salsa (fresh and frozen). Apparently I’ve been letting the tomatillos get overripe (yellow) so we did a mix.
Pics from Friday
Weeding and staking
Pulling garlic and onions
Got a pretty good haul of onions and garlic today. That’s prolly about half- the other half is still in the ground. GOOD year for this stuff! Many onions bolted, but the remaining ones are big and beautiful
The garlic in the west bed was best- the middle variety in the south bed was good too- I’m a little disappointed with the ones on the sides (I’ll edit to add variety names)
Also got a couple of dinky novas, raspberries, garlic scapes, and some squash
Oh, and yellow beans!
Looks like something (deer?) helped itself to some green bean and raspberry leaves
Oh, and a couple of tomatillo and one
Tiny
Pepper
Today
‘S haul plus some braided garlic
Also fertilized tomatoes and planted some cilantro
I think I missed a day
Green Beans out our ears. I finally pulled the last of the start onions and garlic, braids coming soon. Still got some berries- and more tomatoes and tomatillos. And carrots and beets
I’m loving the carrot top “pestos” with onions, garlic, whatever green herb (basil, cilantro, oregano) and an acid (red wine vinegar, citrus). P put it on pizzas tonight.
More things
Strawberry volunteer
Before and after garlic cleanup
One of the rhubarbs
Squash climbing the grapes
The most beautiful onion