Sept 15th

 We dug potatoes today. It's harvest time. 

Sweet Karolina brought me a bucket of tomatoes.  I'm making salsa today 

And potato salad.

I still have Zucchini,  Beets carrots and tons of apples.  Yea garden 😎 

Crisscross September Applesauce

 

Today was fun. A sweet friend Nicole is interested in canning so I invited her over. We picked apples from my tree and made applesauce and canned it. I also harvested my Beets and she bought some. We canned pickled Beets. It went really well.  She was happy with my garden and collected rhubarb and apples to take home. It was wonderful to share knowledge and garden harvest with someone who enjoys fresh produce as much as me.

The garden is drying out. It's coming to the end of another fun vegetable summer. 

Freezing corn

 My sweet friend Julie Hough sells corn on the cob. Her boys picked extra corn on the weekend.  It didn't all sell. She bought me 5 grain bags of corn this morning.  We are sharing it with friends and cooking and freezing it.

Ashley husked corn. I cooked it and cut it.

July 4th laundry soap

 

We got through Canada day. My lovely girls are 13 and 14 now. They can do Canada day by themselves.  I get to sit at Debs in the shade and the girls come back to me when they are done exploring. 

Laundry is never ending.  I feel like I have more than the usual family.  

I make my own laundry soap. I use ends of bars of soap. My friend who works for us, Karolina. Makes her own bars of doap from her goats. So we are very blessed. I like not buying laundry soap because of the plastic tubs it comes in. I get about 9 jugs of laundry soap out of this recipe.  I do like to add a jug of arm and hammer laundry soap to it so it smells gooder.

My garden is going great. We are eating our veggies out of thr garden now.  We had Beets and a big Zucchini and lots of peas this week.

We have cucumbers and Cantaloupe flowering. Our apple tree looks so great.  It's hot now and we need a rain. Our bedroom air conditioner puts out a 5 gallon pail of water a day so I carry it down to the garden.  Win win

June 26. First day of summer holidays

 

We picked strawberry.  I took Benny to the berry patch. He was very good. We also got snap peas. Then we visited Jen and Russell. 

Emily and I made jam. Later we made biscuits.  Emily put orange zest in them. It was so amazing with the warm.jam

 It was a hot day but in the evening we had thunderstorms and rain. My garden is doing great.  I have peas coming and Zucchini that I think I will be able to pick in a week. 

Spring 2023 may

Zucchini 

Rhubarb 

Radishes and snow peas

Rhubarb pie

Spring has been wonderful this year. I started my seeds inside this year. I have old German tomatoes and roma tomatoes  cucumbers,  jalapeños peppers and regular peppers.  I moved Zucchini and Cantaloupe plants outside.  I covered each one with a glass jar so it's like a greenhouse. 

I planted seeds outside of Radishes,  and snow peas and Beets. I have not had luck with peas before but they are coming up.  This weekend I will put my carrot seeds in the garden. 

Tomatoe plants are not big enough to move outside yet. I will wait until may 24th.

I also made 3 potato plants in pots. We will plant potatoes outside after the cattle corn has been sprayed.

Right now we are eating Rhubarb and asparagus.  My mom brings the asparagus from her farm land. We love it. Having fresh food is wonderful.