So here are a few (too many) pictures (and words) to document this past growing season. I thought I had more pictures of produce, but oh well., there still ends up being too many.
Tomatoes:
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then to boxes. My biggest haul (other then picking all for
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what did I do with all of those? I gave some away, but then mostly they were made into weekly pasta sauce (food process the whole tomato then boil down by half, add spices and its sooo tasty.
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I also canned, salsa and TOP sauce (if you are really nice I might share some relish
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Of course the best thing to do with fresh garden tomatoes is to eat them fresh. Numerous sandwhiches were made delicious in this manner, as well as salads....
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Next- Cabbages and peppers. From the earlier post you saw a big head of regular, green cabbage that I grew. I think I had a 3 or so green ones and 2 purples. I found a delicious recipe for pickled cabbages and peppers which was awesome as it used two of my garden produces this year.
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These peppers aren't from my garden, but from a farm stand near my work (3 for a dollar! and they are much bigger and tastier and more variety then the super expensive store ones). I don't know why I didn't get any pictures of mine (both sweet and spicy) were really good this year.
I found out that if I use the purple cabbage it turns everything pink when processed. This isn't as apetizing and looses all the beautiful mix of colors.... but if I give you some you better not say anything. I stayed up one night till 2 am trying to get everything preserved and that makes me onry... I made 5-6 batches of this stuff with each batch a little different. It will be fun to try and see what tastes the best.
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beans, peas, and cukes: Peas did well this summer and were all eaten fresh. Beans did ok but stopped producing fairly quickly (they need to be kept picked better). I didn't get any pictures of the dragon tongue beans which is sad because they looked so cool! I didn't end up preserving to many of my own so I bought some farmer stand ones (again supper cheap) to put up plenty of dilly beans (sorry no picture).
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Also a picture of a kohlrabi. I like them but they haven't done super well and I think I'll use the space for something different next year.
My zuchinni on the other hand
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I found out that lima beans are better from the garden but they are a pain! First you have to pop them them out of the pods, then boil for 5 minutes then de-hull them. All that work for a tiny bowlfull! Won't plant them again, even though they were more desease resistent then some of the other bean varieties.
I got tons of grapes. YAY! and they are super, super tasty. So sweet its like candy. Was able to share lots of these, the rest I froze and I'm waiting for my new steam juicer to come in so I can juice them.
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Beets did ok this year, not as many as I anticipated, but there are still some out in the garden. By all reports they are supposed to be fine after a light frost...
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Egg plants did better towards the end of the season, took awhile to get going, but got some fun ones. Liked the varieties I did this year (including white fingerlings) but only made my delicious eggplant o'brien once (another way to use up tomatoes too).
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winter squash and melons. Only a couple of melons made it through, even though I had built them such cute teepees to grow on. For rude. It was a hard year for these products. I did get a number of winter squash but not enough to put up the huge numbers I need for squash mac and cheese. I'll need to buy some from the farmer's stand.
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My carrots struggled to get up this year. Found out that the snails were eating all the babies as soon as they popped up so its a wonder I got any from my 3 plantings. I planted lots of different colors. These are a crazy looking called "snow white". I had to pick them before the frost as the green part was sticking out above the soil. They are huge!
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I have posted earlier about my jam making exploits with the various berries I got this year. I really needed to do more with my berry patches this year, but didn't get
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have you ever noticed that I make big messes when I cook or preserve food.
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Turnips are icky. The end. well not really cause I tried to pickle some to see if they are edible this way.... will probably just sit in my food storage until I throw them out or the end of the world comes and I actually need to eat them... there are some still out in the garden, but they might remain there. speaking of icky I don't know why I plan swiss chard every year. Well I guess I do cause its pretty and grows well. Too bad its icky.
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These are the sorghum canes I grew. Suprisingly enough they grew pretty well considering they weren't in an ideal spot. I really wanted to make syrup out of them but can't figure out a way to get the juice out! They are like sugar cane but a little smaller and less juicey with (to me) a better flavor.
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I didn't actually plant this... but some amazing mushrooms grew this year. This one smelled really good and was HUGE but I didn't dare eat it..
Also not pictured:
Potatoes- red ones did great (although nothing like my nephew Zane's), yukon golds not so much.
Onions- used them throughout the year and would have a better harvest if I didn't try to crowd everything so close together- some got way overgrown by the zuchinni and didn't get very big. Others I didn't harvest soon enough and they started to grow again. Not good.
Brocoli: previous posts showed I grew some big heads but they get buggy and bitter and I don't pick them often enough, so I will try and refrain from planting next year (the little plants are so cute that I can't help myself and will buy them without thinking).
Tomatillos: come up as volunteers and always get lots
Spinach, Parsnips, Garlic- didn't do well this year
I was asked to present a little on preserving harvests through drying and freezing for a relief society thing. I ended up going way over board (I know shocking) and packed my car full of things to show.
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learned lots. namely to stop going overboard. ok guess I didn't really learn that.
Finally, here are some pictures of my pots pretty well filled out. They got even bigger then this but I think there weren't enough flowers in them.
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The end of garden 2011. Unless I take a picture of whats in my front room when I get back.