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Beautiful carrots from the garden, just scrubbed and ready for freezing for winter soups and stews |
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| Sliced then blanched before freezing |
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| Beautiful Missouri peaches turned into several lovely jars of Peach Ginger and Old Fashioned Peach jam   Apple rosemary jelly and apple ginger marmalade made from apples from my Aunt Frieda and Uncle Joe's apple tree in South Dakota  This is a bucket of bliss! The tomatoes are FINALLY ripening which means I have been tied to the kitchen making all the tomato preserves --- marinara sauce, salsa, ketsup and tomato sauce. It will be a tasty winter afterall.  I could barely lift this container of tomatoes. The tomato plants are loaded with ripening tomatoes so I'll be in the kitchen for sometime yet.  Raspberry, cherry, & blueberry cherry jams and two quarts of marinara sauce. Yeah, I've been making a lot of jam, but it's a staple for Mark with his home made bread. Come January, it is a real treat on bread, waffles or some vanilla ice cream!  And here is a lovely view that I witnessed from my kitchen window while working at the sink. Nature is just outside my windows. |
3 comments:
Wow, I guess you have been busy with garden produce! I'm glad your tomatoes finally ripened--ours didn't do so well. I'm still watering and deadheading flowers. I preserved some hydrangeas with a glycerin solution and have run out so need to get some more.
We've been combining beans and got them done yesterday. Corn will be next but its not quite dry enough yet.
Happy Autumn,
Kaye
Sounds like you ladies have been busy with your produce. This is the first year I have not done any canning but I've been busy making moves of mums and after Kent built a new berm for the lilacs I got all of my tinkerbell lilacs grouped together now. Also got new tulip and hyacinth bulbs planted for new spring beauty. My dahlias are gorgeous right now. Helped my daughter redo her front yard so my first offering of landscapeing suggestions ended with a very pleased customer. We've had quite interesting visitors in our neighborhood this month: 2 turkey hens and 13 young ones. They feed at my bird feeding station and roost in my neighbors trees at night. Time for us to set aside a day soon again. I know Pat's wedding is over. Talk to Chuck this wk and she was still there taking care of things while they were gone. Fall blessings to everyone! JoAnn
I'm so happy to see a new entry. I kinda figured you were busy putting the garden up for winter.
I have been the recipient of various garden goodies from friends since we didn't have time to care for a garden this year. Hopefully next year we will be picking our own produce in the Black Hills. The hpuse is coming along nicely and we hope to be in by Christmas. Take care and hug each other for us.
Sandy in South Dakota
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