Vegetable Gardening

[GLC1968]

Thanks, shootingstar - that's a great idea! I can even use the 5-minute bread dough for the dough without losing too much 'harvest' time! Excellent!

Yeah, I'm definitely going to bring some in to work. I just don't feel right bringing in the split ones, so there will be lots that I'll need to use up myself at home.

My dinning room table is covered with zucchini, tomatoes, cukes and now plums and soon to be apples! If the fridge weren't filled with eggs and goats milk, I'd not feel so pressured to use everything up immediately!

Bounty's a b1tch, ain't it?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

GLC- can you cut the plums into big chunks and just load them into zipper freezer bags and freeze them? Then you could use them in all kinds of ways later on.

[GLC1968]

GLC- can you cut the plums into big chunks and just load them into zipper freezer bags and freeze them? Then you could use them in all kinds of ways later on.

Yep, this is on the agenda for tonight. We will be cutting up plums and tomatoes to freeze for when I have more time for processing, oh and shredding more baseball bat zucchini too.

And I'm a bit scared as the blackberries are ripening already and it looks like another bumper crop. Eeeek!

[smilingcat]

Yep, this is on the agenda for tonight. We will be cutting up plums and tomatoes to freeze for when I have more time for processing, oh and shredding more baseball bat zucchini too.

And I'm a bit scared as the blackberries are ripening already and it looks like another bumper crop. Eeeek!

congratulation on your bounty.

[Jolt]

Yep, this is on the agenda for tonight. We will be cutting up plums and tomatoes to freeze for when I have more time for processing, oh and shredding more baseball bat zucchini too.

And I'm a bit scared as the blackberries are ripening already and it looks like another bumper crop. Eeeek!

Sounds good! As for the plums, you could probably can them--cut in half with the pits removed. I'll be doing that with pears pretty soon...

[GLC1968]

congratulation on your bounty.

Thank you!

Sounds good! As for the plums, you could probably can them--cut in half with the pits removed. I'll be doing that with pears pretty soon...

Yep, we'll definitely be doing some canning. I just don't have time at the moment and they need to be picked NOW. Actually, maybe I can do a load or two this weekend?

I knew the end of the summer was going to be harvest-overwhelming, but reality is worse than I imagined! Luckily, goats and chickens love overripe/spoiling fruits and veggies - so nothing truly goes to waste....

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I knew the end of the summer was going to be harvest-overwhelming, but reality is worse than I imagined! Luckily, goats and chickens love overripe/spoiling fruits and veggies - so nothing truly goes to waste....

And don't forget the compost pile (gasp!!) But nothing really goes to waste there either.

[Jolt]

Well, the pear canning is going to start sooner than I had anticipated. My roommate and I picked a huge basketful of pears off one of the trees today and there's probably another basket's worth ripening on that tree. Then there's another tree that is also loaded (the ones on that tree aren't ready yet). Looks like there will be some work happening tomorrow! We also just got a bunch of beets and beet greens ready to go in the freezer.

[tulip]

That reminds me of a funny thing. My father has pear trees that are very old (the house was built in 1878, but they aren't that old). The trees produce some decent pears, but my father doesn't do anything to or with them. His dog, however, loves pears and eats all that fall on the ground, which is alot this time of year. The dog also eats the tomatoes off the vine. I've never heard of a dog that does that.