Our friends in Delray recently blessed us with apples, tomatoes and peppers. We picked them with their help.
The tomatoes were turned into canned chunks, salsa, juice and soup with the help of my mother.
The tomatoes and peppers are so large and beautiful. Planted in wood chips as Back to Eden suggests.
Watermelon crop from our garden. Obviously there are potatoes in the pail. The boys keep bringing me a bucket at a time as needed. About once a week. So nice to have food from the garden!
The peppers (from our garden) were useful in making salsa. We also put halves in the freezer for four or five meals of stuffed peppers.
The onion crop has been a blessing. It is fast disappearing.
A day's labor- tomato juice and applesauce. A friend taught me to cook tomatoes and then use the blender to make juice. I think she runs the final product through a sieve but I just put it in the jars, seeds and all, for a thicker juice. I make soup the same way.
The Crepe Myrtle was filled with blooms this year.
And this bush that I haven't yet figured out. A type of hydrangea possibly?
Have you had a bounteous summer/fall?
Do you expect a hard winter?
It is sometimes difficult to just enjoy all these good things when people in other parts of the world are suffering from hurricanes, wars, earthquakes and fire.
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