Canning Canning

Well it's been pretty busy here, Saturday I canned 18 pints of corn relish, 4 pints of muscadine grape juice, 2 quarts and 1 pint of green beans and finally made two loaves of wheat bread. Boy, was I beat that evening! But the feeling you get at the end of that hard day or when you go to your full pantry and see all of those beautiful organic homemade goodies just makes your heart leap with joy, or it does me anyway ;>) I have to mention that I have a little helper, my hubby. He gets right in there and helps me every step of the way!

















I made this green tomato chow chow last week when my beautiful tomatoes suddenly got a late blight and started rotting! Oh well, when life gives you lemons make chow chow! I got 18 pints out of them anyway.

Harvest Time

Russian heirloom tomatoes








heirloom zucchini









dill









heirloom cantaloupe
cabbage
jalapeno's
and my supper....
mustard greens, cukes, red potatoes, onions and little fingers carrots.

I am so tickled with my carrots, I tried something new by growing them in a pot! After visiting the urban homestead website, a family in Pasadena CA raising a garden on a tenth of an acre using raised beads and pots and having great success I thought I would give it a try and what do ya know, it works! I've never had much luck growing carrots in my garden so from now on they will be pot bound. Organic gardening is lots more work but well worth it.

Garden Photo's

Upper garden with marigolds, buckwheat, corn and tomatoes.








Lower garden with blue lake green beans on "rustic" tepee's.


Windmill in my strawberry bed companion planted with sweet onions.

Garden Babies

Just look at my little babies! First I have a zucchini then a national pickling cucumber, a cute little cantaloupe and my last two pictures are mexico midget tomatoes. I bought my cucumbers, zucchini and tomatoes from heirloomvegetables on ebay, click here to see their stuff. I bought my cantaloupe named mamaw's sweetest from smokymistgardens on etsy, click here to see their seeds.