Well, it has been a prosperous year. I canned 6 flats of quart jars of
mostly fruit
where each flat has 8 x 7 = 56 jars. So I have enough fruit and tomatoes
and
pickles to last me until next summer. So a continuous year round supply
of
organic fruit and vegetables.

I am at the end of this year's harvest. I still have to harvest the
potatoes and onions. Perhaps tomorrow or the next few days. I have
bought special metal
racks for the potatoes and onions so that they rest on steel grating
allowing
plenty of air and no moisture to spoil. Last year I had trouble with the
plastic
flats and containers in that black mold spoiled the tomatoes and
potatoes.

Harvested the rhubarb. But still getting a few more apples, pears and
Swiss
strawberries.

I had an opportunity to get hawthorns. And I like hawthorns more than
crab apples, but decided it was too much work.

I am hoping that as the years go by that the work of canning will get
easier and
easier. One of the things I notice is that everyone of us looks back on
life and
exclaims "gee I sure was active and busy and don't know where I had the
energy to do all of that". So I am hoping that canning 330-360 quarts
(liter)
every year will get easier and easier so that as I get older I can still
maintain
that number.

This year was exceptionally well harvest on black walnuts. I have one
favorite
tree that produces every year a large number of large nuts.

The bad features of 2002 is that I have no plums this year. So I have
something
to work on in future years. To have a yearly supply of plums. Already I
have
expanded the plum grounds.

And another feature is that I need to find out what varieties of apple
are the most
fireblight resistant and to start some of those.

This year I had a huge crop of tomatoes. My mistakes were several. I
planted
too many plants of over 20, when 10 is more than enough for one person.
I also
made the mistake of getting tomatoes not suited to the climate. I should
have
gotten the "early girl" or "big boy" varieties. Instead I tried Wolford
Wonder
(big heart shaped tomatoes) and Purple Calabash (fluted tomatoes and
ugly)
but prolific. Next year I should use just early-girl and cherry
tomatoes.

More "Archimedes Plutonium" anagrams:

Nuclear idiot humps me
Hi, lame cretinous dump
Hilarious cement dump
Moist leach urine dump
Duel chromium panties
Communal herpes idiot
Idiot male chosen rump
Earth's ionic mule dump.
Penis could mature him
I pound his male rectum.
Mouse dimple **** hair