Well, the garden isn't going as well as I'd like this year. I'm engaged in an ongoing battle with the moles and voles. They are, btw, winning. I'd made glorious plans to process and can tomatoes by the case to use as tomato sauce and for stewing, but it doesn't look as if I will get enough from the vines for that purpose.
The cucumbers have been doing well, but we're in desperate need of a good rain. It's been dry here. The Roma II beans that I planted haven't come up, but the Kentucky Wonders seem to be doing fine. I'd wanted to put up some Romas, but I guess I'll have to settle for good, old fashioned string beans this year. I'll have to plant more KY Wonders if I plan to have anything to can this fall!
I still love the goat milk soap that I made a few months ago. Next time I plan to add oatmeal and a bit of lavender.
Goals this summer/harvesting season is to put up/preserve:
-peaches (canned in light syrup)
-pears (stewed)
-apples (apple butter, stewed)
- potatoes (put up one bushel)
- cherries (dry)
- corn (freeze)
- Dixie/Pinkeyed purple hull peas (freeze)
- garlic
- Kentucky Wonder string beans
-tomatoes (stewed, sauce)
-cucumbers (bread and butter pickles, dill pickles)
- harvest honey
So far, I've:
- canned 18 pints of peaches
- frozen 32 quarts of corn
- dried and stored 10 lbs of garlic
- harvested 75lbs of honey
I have a long way to go!
