Too Many Tomatoes

 This week of July is typically the hottest week of the year for us.  And that's exactly when Pickle Day usually happens.  But today is ...

 This is why we work so hard. The most perfect bowl of strawberries I have ever picked.  No slug damage.  None rotting in the soil.  None st...

 My Bell Peppers finally started to color up so yesterday I canned Sweet Pickle Relish.  I followed This Recipe and added one large bell pep...

 My pickling cucumber vines have been producing very well.  It took three days of picking to gather a hydrator full of cucumbers.  There are...

  I went ahead and dug up that wilted Dahlia today.  Yup.  Complete mush.   I planted a sprouted tuber in its place since I had them.  I did...

 Peter Piper Picked a Peck  of Pickled Peppers.   And when you have a peck o' peppers, its time to get pickling. I am using my Havasu p...

 This year has been a great year for beans.  Last year I decided I would never fiddle with bush beans again.  It's pole beans for me.  T...

  When I was digging potatoes I kept running into really nice horseradish root.  It is a little early in the season to harvest horseradish b...

 It's Pickle Day. Again. This year I thought this day would never come because I had such a hard time growing cucumbers.  But they final...