Fall Harvest

For years when fall rolls around I've wanted to do some canning but I've never done it before and it is quite intimidating to me. This year we had a good amount of tomatoes and I wanted to make salsa, luckily my neighbor Chelsa invited me over to make some with her, she had already made a batch and had the steamers, so we did our batches together and now I'm not so intimidated by it. It turned out great too. Then I talked another friend into canning peaches with me. She showed me the ropes on that one too. It really is so simple and it's fun to do it with a friend. Next year we will hopefully be able to pick our peaches before the birds get to them (they ate all our peaches this year, we were devastated, we were so excited to pick them, this was the first year our tree produced peaches.) Our apple trees did pretty good though. They took a lot longer to ripen than we thought but we are now enjoying them. I picked the last of them today. We had a good amount of beets and peas this year but our brussel sprouts, cauliflower, and broccoli either didn't work or had bugs all over them. We planted pumpkins, squash, watermelon, and zucchini, it all got washed away with our extremely wet spring.

Mark and I are learning as we go, every year we gain a little more knowledge so here's to a better crop next year.