What are you eating from your garden right now?

Hubby just brought home 2 quarts of strawberries from the farm market and they said 'use them right away'. This will be the last of them. So sad. Not a very long season this year. No rain to speak of, but very hot and humid lately. Plus one of the local growers that I frequent had his crop decimated by deer.

What critter would eat the tops out of tomatoes? Two of them were gone. Aaack!!!

My little bed of beans royal burgundy and something else, I forget

Woodchucks?

Smeone today said birds could eat the top out of a tomato plant. I had never heard of that before.

I would suspect squirrels before birds.....

Squirrels? Never thought of that either.

I dont have edibles yet.I belong to Community Supported Agriculture,a friens and I split a half share.
In my garden I eat gnats.They are horrible this year.

Oh, yeah....all over the place, mostly in my eyes! Can't believe my green beans are up so high this time of year....early garden for sure.....

I had a blackfly shut my eye closed last week. I want them all put in prision for physical abuse!

A load of "Sawdust" arrived last night. So I have work cut out for me. Repeat of last year? Not quite - 60 tomato plants not 89 :-)

Still a huge amount, Sherrie...lots of salsa.....

thinking about investing in a pressure cooker and canning spaghetti sauce. Salsa will be on the low end.

Sherrie - You don't need a pressure cooker to can spaghetti sauce. All it takes is a water bath and I get them at tag sales for $10 or less. Food that is high acid - like tomatoes - are safe to just water bath. I think that Ball (as in canning jars) has a whole website with directions and recipies. The Ball Blue Book is the canning "bible".

The neighbor who taught me how to can sauce used to use the oven to can - he lived to 92 so that worked for him, but using the oven is not recommended.

Also, I buy the lids in bulk on eBay as they charge about $2 for 12 lids at the grocery. I have also picked up old, unused lids and rings at Tag Sales and even if they were old - they hardly ever failed.

Here we go again. 1st pic last year. I belive it was Ash. This year its Cherry. Over on another thread I was warned not to do Sawdust as it would deplete the soil of Nitrogen. As you all know, it did not happen. If it did I surely wouldnt do it again.

Makes a nice neat garden! If you use a water bath to can tomato sauce, you can't have any meat in it.....of course, you can add the meat when you're ready to make the spaghetti......

Very tidy, Schickenlady!!! Hoping you get oodles of maters to make your sauce.

Tomatos can have a water bath. Once you start with meat etc. Nope. String Beans cant be water bathed.

Tired, used muscles I did not use or know I had. POOF

Night all, and I care for you all. Sherrie

Sherrie, I do pickled green beans, just like cukes......

Regular green beans need a pressure cooker. I tried the bath and all 12 jars failed. I guess you can try bathing them longer and it might work but.... I rather do it right and not have to worry.

Yeah, no need to die from botulism! When I pickle them, I follow directions to a T....

Garlic scapes, lettuce, sorrel and nasturtium leaves.

Nothing, but peas are almost ready....

My peas are finished. I really do need to plant more.

My first raspberry. It was sooo good!

My first picking of peas...yours sounds better, memory.....

Enjoy those peas.

Raspberries. YUM

But I only got ONE!

Oops! raspberry. Hopefully more are on their way to ripening. I see little blackberries on the ones you sent. Of course they will probably ripen while we are gone. During July.

They might make more flowers so you will get some when you get back.

1st strawberry of the season, my daughter ate it!

Lucky girl!

my pic didn't post

Not many places in CT where you can get native strawberries anymore....the farm near my art class lost all of theirs, won't have any til end of July.....lost all their cherries as well....

If only we could grow black cherries up here. My favorite fruit.

Yellow ones are my favorites!

Stewing rhubarb.

Basil in a salad

Dill in my beet salad tonight.....

Service Berries - just a couple of them.

I have 3 pea pods

Got out kinda early and picked blueberries, a couple of goose berries, black and champagne currants, purslane and some basil.