Oh yes! I garden! I have 33 tomato plants (thank goodness they are staggered in age so I'm not too overwhelmed with them). The bigger Roma tomatoes go into dinner or become sauce, the tiny Romas get cut in half and dried.
Also collecting beans, squash, zucchini, and corn. Had a friend give me some cowhorn pepper plants and okra (that's still a new one to me). Been freezing quite a bit. Carrots and onions will be coming in soon. I also get some bounty sometimes from the organic bakery I work with a few days a week - sometimes a box of produce is rejected by another customer, and we're the last stop before the driver has to turn the truck to freeze instead of refrigerate, so I've had some good stuff to preserve there too.
For whatever reason, my basil isn't doing well this year. All the other herbs (rosemary, lemon balm, sage, oregano, mints and thyme) are doing fabulously. I'm about to dry all the culinary herbs, and have yet to dry some of the herbs for teas. I've collected all the yarrow, dandelion and calendula blossoms I need (and tinctured two of them). Waiting on the St. John's Wort to bloom, and Self Heal is getting there.
Blueberries I have picked, and picked, and picked. I've frozen gallons of them, and made blueberry jam which is disappearing very fast. Have to make more!




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