Here It Comes

71°f/about 22°C, mostly cloudy after heavy rain yesterday evening and overnight.

Here comes the garden, right into my kitchen!

Don't be fooled by that last photo--- there are two drawers full of squash and cucumbers in the fridge.

I am working on the peppers now. The purple ones I stuffed with a rice mixture and froze. The rest my friend Suzy, who stopped by for a visit, chopped up, also for the freezer.

And kale and chard, also prepped and into the freezer. 

Luckily we just defrosted and cleaned out the big freezer, but there isn't much space left. But by deer season we will have used enough to make room for whatever meat we might, hopefully, get then.

I only have a tiny row of Tenderette green beans, so we are getting enough for a meal or two at a time, which is what I wanted, as I don't really need to can any green beans this year.

We are eating tomatoes as fast as we can, but they are beginning to pile up. However,  blight hit the un-mulched plants hard this week, and Larry spent a good bit of time cutting out as much of it as he could, then spraying with an anti-fungal spray. Hoping that we can save them. These are heirloom varieties, and they seem more susceptible to disease than the hybrids.

I should have enough cucumbers for another batch of pickles by Tuesday. The squash will be made into a couple casseroles and frozen. So handy when we need a meal and don't want to cook.

Tomorrow we need to do the corn. It all ripened at once, and now it's ready to pick. Then, I think, we will be caught up. For a little while, anyway.

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