So Paul and I spent yesterday planting in the garden. We planted 2 rows of beans, and left room so we could plant 2 more rows in 2 or 3 weeks, so we can stretch out the harvest time of the beans. We planted 2 different kinds of beans so we will see what we get. We also planted the carrots that we had started from seed a few weeks ago, in pots, along with the squash and zucchini, and the 2 pumpkins that Paul started. We will plant some more stuff in the next few weeks, but we will have to get some more seed first, and then we will probably plant some corn, and Corrine wants some snap peas. But the garden has been officially started, which is great, since it has been raining a little today, and should continue for the next few days, so that will be a good soaking of the garden.
So last week we canned 7 cans of tomato sauce. It took 22 pounds of tomatoes to make the seven pints. After that long process, the tomatoes are still growing, so we have more and more out there. With the next set of tomatoes, I think we are going to make some more tomato sauce, and I think we will also make some salsa. Here are the pictures I took of our last 2 harvests.
The picture on the left is actually a box full on tomatoes that I picked on Tuesday and the picture on the right is our harvest from Thursday. We’ll see how many tomatoes we get tomorrow, since it seems that we pick tomatoes every other day.
In case you can’t see it we are still harvesting green peppers, some eggplants and even an occasional zucchini, and maybe this week we’ll get some of that lettuce I planted about a month ago.
I know it has been like forever since I hae done a veggie update, but that is just because we have been so busy. Between work, and stuff around the house, and just enjoying life we have been quite busy. And I can apologize now for not doing the garden update, but I have bringing in just too much stuff to count. Sunday afternoon, I brought in close to 7 pounds of Roma tomatoes, not counting the little Cherry Tomatoes, and the 2 Beefeater Tomatoes(that weighed close to 1lb each), and the 3 zucchini that I brought in. Next will be lots of eggplants and time to can tomato sauce and freeze some eggplants or something.. Gardens are great stuff. I can’t wait till we start to have all this fruit with all these veggies we are growing too..
