Today’s pickings – a canner load of beans
8 large zucchini because I forgot we had planted them in that spot and I thought that was a different type of squash.
5 ears of corn – most of the corn didn’t do very good this year. I will have to deal with canning and making zucchini patties and bread the rest of this week.
Often when I get a new machine, they aren’t interested in what I have to trade in, so they sit here. It was time to clean all that out. So I pulled out the machines and readied for sale the ones that are working. There are two that don’t work well enough to sell them. Since they are electronic machines, I’m not sure what I can do with them. And I’m not sure if anyone will want the accessories that came with them. However, the machines are leaving here shortly. I just have to decide how to deal with them. The good ones will go on Craig’s list.
A new beginning because one needs to do something while waiting for the pressure cooker to do it’s job.
Yes, it took the whole day. I baked 18 medium loaves of no oil, vegan, zucchini bread and grated enough zucchini to fill 6 containers with 8 cups each to make a cream soup throughout the winter. Each package will make enough soup for 2-3 meals. And the recipe is so good! If you want the recipe, just ask and I’ll be happy to share.
Look at the size of these beets. They are huge! Tomorrow I will tackle them and can both plain and pickled beets. Does anyone have a wonderful pickled beet recipe. I looked up on the internet and many are recommending freezing them. I’ve not tried that and the freezer is getting full now. Only the larger beets were pulled so I’m hoping the rest of the beets can be pulled as we need them during the winter.
The big garden now has some empty spaces from where the first potatoes, the onions and the garlic were planted. No, I’m not coördinated enough to have planted something else there this year.
It is a bit warmer today, but I’m not going to complain as I remember too well, what the cold days feel like. Instead after the produce harvest this morning, I spent some time in my studio which is a cooler basement area creating a few more blocks.
The Sew Fun this week was put on by Lana Jones. She comes up with ideas in her sleep – of which she doesn’t need much. These 3 signs used sticky metallic paper on boards and mounted denim. Aren’t they cute?
Using a piece of tile that she found at Lowes, she put metallic paper on these “rocks”. And they did look like flat rocks. This is such a wonderful way to give a little inspirational gift.
These are made of “Ice Resin” a product to pour in molds. These would make lovely jewelry or nice for key chains.
This is where she caught me. I loved this lightweight jacket you see in peach and black. And it can be made totally on the serger. So I will be looking for fabric to make this.
This book also had some fun projects and the items in this book have both the patterns you can cut out or if you have a Accuquilt, they have a die by Edyta Sitar to make them.
This “Buddy Blanket Bear” has only a stuffed head, so if a young child likes to take a huggie to bed, one could either hand or machine embroider on the open skirt.
After all this, I took a brief rest on the deck. Isn’t this a lovely view? It was such a pretty day. Tomorrow will be more garden time and maybe zucchini bread baking. Don’t hold your breath on that though.
Can you see all the moss? We had someone out today to clean the roof and gutters. And the roof looks new again. Apparently, this fellow had an extra half day, and since he has done other work for us in the past, he had a lot to look at and show us as well. He loves showing off his high pressure sprayer, so he showed us how he can even weed with it That was interesting. Next week he will bring his big truck and take away all the garbage a farm can collect – rotting boards, pieces of fencing, it goes on.
In the bare spot down the row, I removed the cauliflower which wasn’t doing much and planted lettuce, carrots, and beets.
This is the bottom of a bug of some sort caught in a web. He was about an inch long and one I had not seen before.
A big job today was tying up the bell peppers. I was waiting for someone to string the wire to tie them to, but that hasn’t happened, so I used what was there from tomatoes last year.
It looks like there will be many peppers this year. I really like to freeze them so I’m not paying $4.00 a pound or more.
I thought these were pickling cukes, but they are fuzzy on the outside, so will wait and see what they become.
The sweet potatoes are doing their best to over run the place. They are excellent competition for the tomatoes. I had no idea, they would do that.
The tomatoes have hit the top, so maybe they will come back down now. I’m picking a handful of cherry tomatoes nearly every day. And volunteers are still springing up. It’s so hard to treat them like the weeds they have become.
larger tomatoes getting color
more lettuce and beets coming up – planted two weeks ago.
I did find time to make half of the trees before we went out insurance shopping. It seems insurance companies change
they were so good in our salad today.
Greek Marjoram
First, I went out to the back hillside garden to pick some of these lovely onions. I sautéed a large one, then added 2 cups of black beans and 2-3 cups of cooked rice I seasoned it with about 2 ounces of the above shown Costa Rican salsa (which we found on Amazon) and some salt. Once the onions are sautéed, the dish only needs to be heated throughout.
This photo is taken from the other end so you can see the bell peppers. The new lettuce on the right is starting to come up and maybe some beets. On the right at the other end is cauliflower which may or may not get heads. It is rather slow. And so grows what is in the hoop house.