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Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:43 pm

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We had a gorgeous weekend up her in Vermont. Sunday was sunny and not too warm. My mother came up to spend the day and give my honey and son haircuts. We did some shopping and just hung out for most of the day.

Monday was a busy day inside and out. I now know why we call it labor day. We did a lot of labor in the garden and out.

The cucumbers had given up their last veggie so we had to pull their vines out. We found a few hidden here and there. The hot and sweet pepper plants were not looking their best, they don't seem to like the cooler nights. Sooooooooooo we picked every last jalapeno pepper and bell pepper.The green peppers had just started to turn red, too bad our growing season wasn't prime for them to turn colors. But they are just as good green. I picked a bunch of ripe cherry, yellow pear and grape tomatoes. I decided to start removing more of the green tomatoes from the other plants. I cleared off several plants and we pulled them out of the garden. I now have 4 flats of tomatoes in the porch ripening.

Empty Cucumber Trellis:





Clearing out the garden:



Logan and Me in the garden:



Peppers are all done.



We have a huge apple tree on our back hill and we noticed we had lots of apples this year. So we made a picker from a 4 prong rake and a long pole. We got a huge bowl of apples. they are not good looking at all but most were decent enough to save. I cooked half of them down and made 3 pints of apple sauce.



I was very busy canning Sunday and MOnday. On Sunday I made a batch of zucchini relish and a batch of sweet pickle relish. I got a total of 7 pints of relish. On Monday i cooked down more tomatoes for soup and got 1 quart. I also made the 3 pints of apple sauce and i experimented with roasted salsa.


Tomatoes cooking down for soup:



Veggies ready for roasting for salsa. the salsa came out a lighter shade of red due to the fact that I used red, pink, yellow and orange tomatoes.



Mondays Harvest:



Here is a picture of all the canning I did this weekend. The light pink jars are pink apple sauce. I left on the skins since the apples are so tiny that peeling would be fruitless!



I will be making pepper relish, which uses red peppers and green tomatoes. I just need to buy some peppers. There will be a lot more canning to come in the next few weeks.






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Droopy wrote on Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:11 pm:

*faints* My, that's a lot of lovely produce, and by the sound of it you haven't had one moment to draw your breath in all day. I get exhausted just by thinking about doing half of what you've done. Big pat on the back!

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Sjoerd wrote on Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:04 am:

Magnificent...in a word.
You really are making the most of your harvest. it just looks so good.
You are not through though, are you?

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SongofJoy57 wrote on Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:57 pm:

My goodness, you have been busy!!! Everything looks delicious.

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THERESA wrote on Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:07 am:

nice garden, nice harvest

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glendann wrote on Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:55 pm:

You did do lots and lots over your labor day.It looks like you have lots of great jars to prove it too.They all look so good.

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