October 15. That’s when a local grower plants garlic, so we did it today, too. We’ve tried to grow garlic before, but it never really worked because we did not know anything about the process. However, when we attended a garlic festival this summer and came face to face with $3 garlic bulbs, we were […]
Garden
Three-Week Wrap Up: Harvest Time
In my life these weeks… We harvested and put up food for the winter. The pantry is full of canning, the basement floor is covered with pumpkins and squash, our freezers are almost full, the garden still has one picking of raspberries, our whole leek crop is still growing, and we have hundreds of tomatoes, […]
Today’s Tomato Projects
This is what’s left of our tomatoes after two days of salsa-making and a lot of eating: piles of tomatoes ripening on trays and on the lids of our plastic storage boxes. Today I plan to can all the red ones. Usually we freeze more than we can, but this year we’re making space in the freezer for the next […]
A Mountain of Chard, Twice
See, this is what I dealt with yesterday. A mountain of chard. Doesn’t it look impressive? This is after washing the chard and taking out the center stalks. When I saw the pile, I felt like crawling into a little corner and hiding. Less than two hours later, however, it was all chopped, microwave-blanched, and packaged. That huge mountain […]