Archive for July, 2008
Update 7-15-08
Posted on July 16, 2008, under Gardening.
We just picked a few more items from the garden. We picked more cucumbers some okra, potatoes, peppers and two tomatoes.
Pickles
Posted on July 12, 2008, under Uncategorized.
Susan and her sister made some pickles yesterday from cucumbers that were picked from our garden as well as some from her sister’s garden. I forget what kind they made but I believe they were some kind of sweet pickle.
Here’s our cucumber harvest:
Here’s a few of the pickles they made:
Raised bed update
The raised bed I have at our house is doing good. The German Queen tomatoes are up about 4ft now and have some small green tomatoes on them.
First pic of bed right after the catnip and the carrots were planted:
Pic right after I installed the irrigation system:
Pic taken this morning before I tied up the tomato plants again:
Blackberries
Susan and I have gone out to my parent’s house twice this week to pick some of their blackberries to make jelly out of. We picked just shy of a gallon on Monday (7/7/08) and last night we went back out there and picked probably 1 1/4 gallons. Susan made the first pickings into a little over 4 pints of jelly. I think this next batch she is going to put them into half pint jars. I’m going to guess we’ll be about 12 half pints from this batch. Maybe a little more. Here’s a pick of last night’s berries.
…and here’s a pic of Susan braving the “stickers” on our first picking.
Pic of said stickers:
