We've had a pretty busy garden season this year. While the winter squash and tomatoes didn't produce very well, the other fruits and vegetables did pretty well. Here's a run down of what we did this summer:
Canned goods: dill pickles 3 quarts, blackberry jelly 4 1/2 pints, apples 64 quarts, blueberry jam 4 pints, strawberry jam 4 pints, red cherries 2 quarts, black cherries 4 quarts, pears 4 1/2 pints, peaches 19 1/2 quarts, yellow pickles 4 pints, grape jelly 12 pints, pickled beets 8 pints, tomato sauce 16 pints.
Frozen goods: blueberries 2 gallons, stuffed patty pans 2 gallons, beets 5 gallons, green beans 16 gallons and counting, zucchini 1 gallon, yellow squash 6 gallons, corn 3 gallons, peas 1 gallon, pea pods 1 gallon, green peppers 1/2 gallon and countin, patty pans cubed 1 gallon, butternut squash 1 gallon, pumpkin butter in process, sweet potatoes still in the ground.
Still growing goods: fall crops of turnips 9 rows, mustard greens and kale.
We had a patty pan escape our notice and it grew to 2 pounds while the average patty pan we picked was about 5 ounces. We made patty pan parmesan and it was good!! Think we'll do that again; on purpose this time!
Tired? We are!!! But we are still working on the gardens, and will be probably until the end of the month. The chickens are producing 7 to 8 eggs a day average. They are yummy!
We also started composting this year. We built a wire compost bin and we fill it with kitchen waste and chicken poo dirt along with branches and some leaves and rotting wood pieces. Hopefully, we'll have good compost for the garden next spring. I just love projects!!!
