The Garden – Page 23

Tomatoes, blueberries, and beans

Plus a zucchini and some peppers

Yes we can can

We canned a bunch of green and runner beans a couple of days ago. This was about a full drawer of veggies (I’d estimate 6lb, one big Pyrex bowl of runners, a bigger one of green beans). This was roughly 4 days of harvest- a glut!

Long pieces are easier to pack.

Weeding and feeding

It rained last night, and its nice and cool/gloomy today so we got some work done. Weeded a lot, and I put some vegetable food on the tomatoes and peppers.

0@..?

Got more tomatoes, pulled most of the onions, more beans of course. ? one tiny okra

Took a break

It was a mistake. This was the haul yesterday.

Abundance! 2 days since picking. First Roma tomatoes . Bt

I turned some runner beans into a puree (boil in salt water 4-5 minutes, blend with butter and garlic powder.) it was delicious.

Today’s haul is getting turned into mock Apple crumble.

Artichokes are full of bees

Progress

Undillybeans

A couple of days ago we pickled green beans and a tester of scarlet runner beans (with the same recipe). Success! Today we did another round of 6 mixed jars (10 jars total) because the beans are out of control.

That’s just today.

It looks like the sweet spot for the pickles, using this recipe is ~3.5 lbs. That makes 6 jars of beans with 3c each water and 5% white vinegar. 3.5 lbs of beans is roughly twice what’s shown in that picture. That gets us well below the 4.2 ideal ph.

Pulling radishes

I had another big haul today (mostly squash) and pulled some onions. First Roma tomatoes are starting to get color.

Pulled the rest of the radish and turnip plants from upper c and reseeded with beets and carrots.

Good hauls

Garlic, rhubarb, and heat.

It’s been a nice cool summer somehow, and we’ve all been happy about it… But today that changes!

I pulled all the garlic to cure. There’s a bunch. The metechi in the south bed seemed a little stunted. I think in general the Deerfield purple gave larger heads.

We also stripped down all the rhubarb, and picked raspberries at a friend’s- for brewing experiments.

Things look good. Good eating. Yellow beans are yellowing, green beans are getting ready to bear, and scarlet runners have given a few. I’ve been pulling squashes while they are small. I’ve got a couple of beds languishing now- I wonder if there is anything I can plant…