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Category: Vegetable and Flower Gardens | Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:48 pm

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This has been so much fun. I am completely addicted to my garden and like many of you I'm sure, am already planning next years rows.
Over the last 2 weeks we have picked more beets, another handful of beans (I pulled all the plants out except one) 6 brussells sprouts! 6 lbs of tomatoes, many of which were dented and bruised from the hail in August. These tomatoes were skinned, bad bits removed and frozen in ziploc bags for soups. We've eaten another 2 meals of pan roasted cherry tomatoes and I've picked 4 good sized zucchini. There are still more to come! We also picked a bunch of our carrots which were rather stubby and wide at the top. The longest was about 4 inches, maybe 5 but a good 1 1/2 inches across the top. Our soil was so airy and soft this year that I thought we'd have long skinny carrots. Any ideas?

In our effort to eat locally I bought 3 baskets of Ontario peaches which were excellent and large this year and processed those into large jars for winter. I think I will do pears this week-end since the peaches look so good. When the kids saw what I was doing they both said "oh you're making those kind of peaches, we love those!". It will be nice to compliment the apples we'll be eating all winter.

I may take our Arctically challenged contributor's advice and bring the root veggies in to keep in sand over the next couple of months. We don't have any potatoes to store (they were put into a Shepherd's Pie by accident when Hubby was cooking) but we'll have lots of beets and carrots.

Here is a mid-Sept dinnertime harvest. Note the Weiner dog trying to steal a tomato.....





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toni wrote on Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:50 pm:

Sounds like a very successful gardening year for you, Congrats.
I am really looking forward to having my own harvests next year.

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Droopy wrote on Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:53 pm:

Congratulations on your wonderful harvest jillh, well done! Your children's comment nearly made me want to hermetize something again, but our girls are more fond of fresh than processed fruit I'm sorry to say.

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Sjoerd wrote on Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:47 pm:

What a resounding success story. Well done, you!
I'll be looking foreward to seeing some fotos when you have the time.

As for the carrots: do you recall the names of them? I mean to say, what kind they were?

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Biita wrote on Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:19 am:

Well done Jill! Those veggies look really good. And congrats on just trying to buy local. Your potatoes you can just set in a mess sack, they will keep for months. Has to have lots of holes the sack that is. But the feeling of growing and then getting to eat what you have grown is one of the best in the world. Glad you got to experience it!

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