On 8/2/2016 2:07 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
Got 7 quarts cooling in the pressure canner as I type , looks like we'll
get one or two batches this size every week for a while . I'll be freezing
some of the San Marzanos for spaghetti sauce too . I better get off my butt
and get some shelves built in the cellar ... between the honey and the
veggies we're running out of shelf space inside .

Congratulations! Just how many quarts of canned tomatoes can you eat? I
once made tomato catsup and then later made tomato juice. That's back
when dear wife felt that 20 or 30 tomato plants were required to call
herself a gardener. Should have seen the year she went for okra, we're
still eating the stuff out of the freezer.

My favorite thing is cleaning out the big freezer, 25 cubic feet, of all
the odds and ends of leftovers she tried to save. Recovered a lot of
containers and almost burned out the sinkerator. That's what happens
when you marry the middle child of six. G Other than that she's been a
good wife. Her folks grew to adulthood during the Great Depression and
they left a helluva legacy for their middle one.

Now I can shed a tear, out tomatoes are gone, so are the crowder peas
and the cucumbers. The zucchini and yellow squash never made fruit. It's
hard for gardens to live in a constant small piece of Hades. The "real
feel" outside today is 108F, otherwise it's just 95F with no shade nor
clouds, nor rain. I think it's time to stop gardening and let the soil
lie fallow until some decent weather comes by.
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