Well I am in the middle of the apple harvest and the beginning of the
pear
harvest.

A key motto or mantra of mine these days is cann only "ripe fruit".
That is
hard for me to do on apples since although I collect only fallen
fruit, apples
take too long of time to ripen in storage. So I end up cutting only a
few
and discarding the rest to the horse and Llama.

Pears are better at ripening in storage.

As I cann them, I generally add a tablespoon of cinnamon and a
teaspoon
of ginger for flavour. I made a mistake a few years back when I bought
the
cinnamon and ginger, thinking that I would use them up in a hurry and
not having any experience with cinnamon or ginger. I found out quickly
that a little cinnamon goes a long way, and I had bought 2 large
containers
of cinnamon and 3 of ginger. And been trying to "use up" those ever
since.
Luckily, this year I am down to the last spoonfuls of both the
cinnamon
and ginger. Sometimes I like the ginger flavour to overpower the
cinnamon
and will reverse the amounts.

I like to mix the pears in with the apples for applesauce. The pears
give the
sauce a better consistency. And later in the season I am going to try
a
pure pear-sauce.

Most of my other fruits are now gone. The grapes ended abruptly. The
day
after I picked most of them, leaving a few behind and they were gone.
Maybe
the birds took them. Grapes have a short window of harvest time.

I have my work cut out on the plums next year as they are mostly wild
plums.
So I want to cut them to the ground and replace with something that
produces.
I am going to try to get cuttings from my cultivar plums and replace
the wild
plums.

After the pears I look forward to the potato harvest and the black-
walnut harvest.

I have burr oak acorns coming to the ground. Maybe someday I will get
a flour
mill grinder and try to make something of acorns. Maybe not, for maybe
it is
too time consuming to get rid of the tannins.

Also I resolved to stop trying to grow onions. This year I tried
growing them in large
pots to control the weeds. They went to head but still nothing to
harvest. So will
stop growing them. Perhaps they need hot sand soil weather.

Strawberries have done fabulous in their pots, for I water them every
day and weed them
daily as I pass by to water. Next Spring I should have 10 times the
number of plants that
I had this Spring. So that means I have to get alot more pots.

Archimedes Plutonium
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