Time to preserve and process that bounty.
The growing season has come to an end but the preserving and storage is still going strong. This was a good season, as you can see from this basket full of tomatoes, hatch peppers, purple peppers, and okra. We canned > 25 pints of roasted tomato sauce, stored up four buckets of potatoes in sawdust, and shelled gallons of cowpeas (black-eyed peas) and beans.
The totals:
- 104 tomatoes (Amish and Pineapple tomatoes)
- 218 cherry tomatoes (plus the innumerable ones I ate while standing in the garden)
- 93 hatch peppers and jalapeno peppers
- 5 gallons of beans
- 3 gallons of cowpeas
- 28 gallon buckets of apples from just one large tree
Apples were cooked into many pints of applesauce. Apple cores and scraps fed to the horses and donkey. Or turned into apple cider vinegar (recipe and pics coming soon).
Buckets of apples were pressed into gallons of apple cider in a cider press, while building community and great fellowship in the process.
