This is Robyn's corn. Grace is standing by it for reference purposes - see the stalks in the middle are as tall as she is now.
This is the whole veggie garden. You can see that we have a few things on the way out these days. The peas are just about done so I planted a cantaloupe under them to take their place in a few days. The broccoli and the cabbage are also about done. I am not sure what I will replace them with. Probably more carrots, beets, lettuce and such. The pumpkin is taking over Gracie's garden (the one by the slide) well as we use the salad veggies she planted. Her beets are delicious! 
This is our blackberry bush - It should keep us pretty busy next month with all those berries!
This is Caden and Robyn in our "canning kitchen." After we got the sweet cherries done, we went back to the orchard for some pie cherries. We got 5 jars of pie cherries canned and then decided that the freezer was a better place for the rest. I put 13 quarts of pie cherries in the freezer. That's A LOT of cherries!
We also picked a half bushel of apricots at the orchard. We have been eating them fresh, but I might dehydrate a few of them tomorrow. I don't like to eat canned apricots - too mushy! Dehydrated ones are pretty good though.
PS
My sour dough corn bread was a success. I cooked it in the dutch oven just to see if I could. I could. This corn bread was more cake like than my usual, not sure which I like better.
I also cooked some regular bread in the dutch oven and it worked fabulously as well. Hooray!
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Garden Pics
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3 comments:
We recently invested in a cherry pitter just like yours. Very helpful. I didn't know how to can cherries so I dried mine. It's very discouraging when you take an entire grocery bag of cherries and dry them. Sadly, we only have a baggie full.
My goodness you have a heaven. I love fresh food! Is there a home for sale close by so I can be your neighbor since I am sure among all your other qualities neighborliness is definitely right up there and you would LOVE to share with us. You are living my dream that I don't know if I could handle. Keep inspiring me. Do you have land or have you just used your space wisely? I know I still haven't emailed you my questions, I have to find that email amongst my spam at that address, it could be a while. Enjoy the fruit of your labors for me.
Our total lot is 60' by 120'. By the time you put a house on that it's pretty tiny. I spent a lot of time drawing and redrawing the yard on paper to fit 12 fruit trees, 3 nut trees, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, 5 grape vines, and six 4' by 8' garden beds.
I do wish I had more land but we can't beat the commute for my husband - he's only about 2 miles from work.
I am a farmer without a farm. :)
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