On a much lighter note - here is our garden! I have nothing to do with this. Tim and Alice do all the dirty work and I process the harvest. Seems to work well for us. A few weekends ago I canned 10 and 1/2 pints of German red cabbage. Looks like the tomatillos are getting ready to pick, so I will be canning salsa verde in the near future. Right now I've got a batch of watermelon pickles going from yesterday's obligatory 4th of July watermelon. I've also got a bee in my bonnet to get the peaches DONE. Canned peaches and peach pie filling were our hands down favorite thing of anything I canned last year. (Well... The salsa I put up was pretty amazing, too. That was Tim's favorite thing.) It was so nice to have those jars of summer goodness in January and February. Every time I have an OB appointment looming I feel like I have to get things done NOW just in case I wind up having my activities restricted. Next OB appointment is Tuesday. I expect I'll put some peaches up this weekend.
One view of the garden. The picture doesn't do justice to how enormous the garden is.
Tomatillos. Tim had no idea what these were. They looked interesting, so he decided to grow them. They have taken off - exciting to me because green salsa is delicious!
Regular tomatoes. I can't tell you how many plants Tim put in - 8 or 10? He really liked my salsa last year.
All hail the bizarre rhubarb plant! I have no idea what that giant stalk in the middle is. Also, I thought rhubarb was a spring plant. This rhubarb did nothing all spring and then suddenly went nuts a few weeks ago. This is year 3 for the plant, so it will be the first year we can harvest. I'm waiting for the stalks to get a little bit thicker.
This is a peach tree growing out of our compost pile. We did not plant it. Eventually Tim will move it and if we're lucky maybe we will get some peaches in a few years!
Alice's flower garden - a little wilty from all the heat.
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