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First round of garlic of the 2025 season. More still growing 🧄
05/29/2025

First round of garlic of the 2025 season. More still growing 🧄

Minnie Royal cherry tree is loaded with cherries this season. It's like having a bunch of ornaments hanging down from th...
05/16/2025

Minnie Royal cherry tree is loaded with cherries this season. It's like having a bunch of ornaments hanging down from the tree. Only about half make it to a bowl as I snack while I harvest. Cherrylicious! 😋

Over 5 lb. of tomato sauce, canned tomatoes, and tomato broth from 65 lb of fresh homegrown paste tomatoes 😲In the first...
11/10/2023

Over 5 lb. of tomato sauce, canned tomatoes, and tomato broth from 65 lb of fresh homegrown paste tomatoes 😲

In the first picture is all the tomatoes I used for this canning session. The big bags are of Roma and San Marzano tomatoes that I harvested in August, September and early October and frozen in preparation for making this sauce. The rest were fresh picked. The jar in the background is about 3 gallons of tomatoes already blended up and ready to go before this picture was taken. I was hoping by placing them in the jar 24 hours before cooking them down that some of the water would separate from the meat of the tomatoes. In the end there was very little separation, probably not worth the effort.
But on the other hand, in the second picture, the tomatoes that defrosted after I took them out of the freezer naturally released a lot of their water and so I was able to simply drain it out of the bag.
I had to use two saucepans since my biggest one is still not big enough. The one on the left Is tomato sauce. The one on the right is just crushed tomatoes with nothing else added. After cooking the tomatoes down a bit and having some water evaporate, I eventually added the onion, garlic, salt, herbs, and just a little bit of sugar.
After all said and done ended up with almost 42 pints of tomato sauce, crushed tomatoes, and tomato broth. (Unfortunately some of the jars were cut out of the last picture).
Between this canning and some pasta sauce we made in July, I am hoping there is enough pasta sauce to feed my family until next year's tomato growing season

Fun Autumn display. Everything home grown
10/05/2023

Fun Autumn display. Everything home grown

I had a harvesting helper in the garden
09/29/2023

I had a harvesting helper in the garden

First harvested cantaloupe this year (original first was eaten by pests)Very yummy and juicy
09/17/2023

First harvested cantaloupe this year (original first was eaten by pests)
Very yummy and juicy

First Dragon fruit flower of the season. Hand pollinated myself at 5am. Hoping for fruit🤞
08/03/2023

First Dragon fruit flower of the season. Hand pollinated myself at 5am. Hoping for fruit🤞

A good weekends harvest in July Spaghetti squashAcorn squashKombuchaZucchiniCornPotatoesOnionCarrotsTomatoesCucumber
07/18/2023

A good weekends harvest in July

Spaghetti squash
Acorn squash
Kombucha
Zucchini
Corn
Potatoes
Onion
Carrots
Tomatoes
Cucumber

Went camping and made some homegrown roasted veggies in my dutch oven. There were carrots, squash, zucchini, red potatoe...
06/29/2023

Went camping and made some homegrown roasted veggies in my dutch oven.
There were carrots, squash, zucchini, red potatoes, beets, onion, sweet potato, garlic, and rosemary. All homegrown organic 😋

Window flower and herb garden box located near backdoor and kitchen Cheap and simple to make. I repurposed some 2 x 4 lu...
06/27/2023

Window flower and herb garden box located near backdoor and kitchen

Cheap and simple to make.
I repurposed some 2 x 4 lumber and used only nails to build it. Building it was quick and simple. To help it last a little longer I used rectangular planting pots for the planting to prevent water damage.

The top row is various flowers. The bottom row is cilantro, parsley, sage, epazote, and basil

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