The Garden Thread

[PA PATRIOT]

I have two large apple tree's and one peach tree in the yard which was here when we moved in. We harvest more apples and peaches then we could ever hope to can. The rest gets donated to a food bank for the elderly.

[Barbara]

I have approximately 8 zillion green tomatoes right now. Since I'm furlough the coming week, I expect they'll all ripen on the same day the following week.

I bought the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving today..looks good. I've always froze or dried my produce except jams. This year, I'm going to try canning..after 20 years of not. :P

Next weekend I'm going to the farmer's market back in my hometown..will be picking up peaches and whatever other goodies are available. I find I can buy some produce there for less than I can grow it.

Get a deer or two in the freezer and I should be good to go.

[Barbara]

My first foray into both canning and crab apple jelly went really well..I've never had it but didn't want to let the apples go to waste..tastes sort of cranberrish.

[Outlander Systems]

Pics, Miss, pics!

I'm dying to get into doing some canning.

I'm on a 20-hour a week furlough...indefinitely.



Plenty of free time to do productive tasks around my Doomicile.

[perna]

Fried green tomatoes are AWESOME, worth trying if you never have.

[Barbara]

Will snap some pics with my phone tomorrow.

Have more apples boiling..need another hour..and I'm sleepy.

Love fried green tomatoes..but like the larger varieties for them..I grow Romas because they're better for sauce..makes littel fried green tomatoes. May fry some up tomorrow anyway.

[perna]

I have been buying Roma lately, mostly because they are cheap and I can use a whole small one on a sandwich instead of half a large tomato, since a cut tomato does not store well.