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Comments on 2002 harvest
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. |
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