This is the first year in a long time that we’ve had a decent garden. I probably picked the last of the squash yesterday. So many days with temps near 110 and the squash has burned up.
I picked the first Seminole Pumpkin yesterday. It could have stayed on the vine a little longer but I was ready to cook one and I’ll cook it today.
The tomatoes were stacking up. We aren’t picking bushels and bushels but even with us eating a lot of them, I had enough to make five pints of tomato sauce.
Earlier in the week, I made five half pints of peach/habanero pepper sauce. It’s HOT! I knew it would be hot but I wanted to try it.
We’re getting a lot of peppers. I’m freeze drying bell peppers and making pepper sauce with the hotter varieties.
Vince is out picking peaches now. I’m going to make peach/jalapeno jelly today. Yesterday I made peach cobbler and we had that with ice cream.
I was hoping our watermelons would get ripe while Addie is here. This heat isn’t helping their quality but they just aren’t ready to pick yet.
Osage Bluff Quilter says
Have you ever made peach salsa? It’s delicious
Rebecca in SoCal says
It looks like you’re figuring out how many things you can make with those abundance of peaches.
You probably won’t miss all the work, but it makes me a little melancholy to think this is the last season for this garden (or any, maybe). You have SO developed this place! Well, no more monitoring the greenhouse, or a lot of chores.
Nelle Coursey says
I made a peach cobbler the other day and it was wonderful! I used Splenda because I had just found out about the diabetes. Could not tell the difference in it and sugar!
Judy Laquidara says
That’s great that you were able to use the Splenda and be happy with it.
Susan Nixon says
Like Osage Bluff Quilter, I like peach salsa, but not with anything hot in it! LOL It looks like even with Addie there, you are still finding time to preserve the bounty. I bet she likes helping you.
Judy Laquidara says
I told her yesterday that she had to entertain herself because I had things I had to do. She went into the sewing room and played with Boots and was no trouble at all.
Joyce says
I gave up on having a garden this year…I dumped some old seeds in the compost pile, and now it (giant wire cage) is totally covered in butternut squash vines. LOL I figure when the squash bugs find them (and they always do), at least they’re already in the compost pile! At the moment I’m just dumping weeds and veggies scraps/peels from the kitchen on top of the vines. It hasn’t deterred them at all…