Barely keeping ahead of the vegetables
I think this year's garden needs to be considered a success. There were some things that just didn't work... eggplant, yellow onions, watermelon... other things have done quite well. We are in the middle of a tomato boom which no one minds, I still pick a couple of cucumbers every time I'm out there, and the okra is doing wonderfully.
Today I chopped and froze some more okra, which puts us at nearly two gallons of chopped frozen okra. I also seeded 38 jalepenos, filled them with cream cheese, and froze them. When we're ready to use them, I'll thaw, wrap bacon around them, and broil them. Tomorrow I plan on doing six more pints of bread and butter pickles and also some candied, pickled hot peppers if I have time. I realized there are two kohlrabi in the back of the refrigerator that I kind of had forgotten about. I suppose tomorrow I should take a good look and see if they are salvageable. If they are, I'll cube, roast them, and freeze.
I'm also running out of storage room. I cannot squeeze any more jars on the shelf in the pantry for home-canned things, and I am starting to squeeze them in wherever I can find room. It's not a bad problem to have, but it means I could be finding lost jars for quite a while.
The other thing we seem to be raising in the garden is rabbits. Yes, the gardens are fenced, but evidently not good enough. The reason we don't have watermelons is because the rabbits ate them all, and the only reason we have pie pumpkins growing is because they are hanging on the fence and the rabbits can't eat them.
I think the rabbits like the garden a lot. If you're a rabbit, what's not to like? It's secure from larger predators and from lawn mowers. There is take-out available everywhere you look. There's conveniently loose soil for digging homes. It's kind of rabbit heaven. It is also why J., as he was picking cucumbers yesterday, discovered a rabbit nest under some of the cucumber vines. There are three or four baby rabbits in it. They still have their eyes closed, but do have fur. They are pretty cute even if they do eat my vegetables. I'll worry about these baby bunnies a lot less than the ones who lived in the front yard of our old house.
[As I was looking for past posts about baby rabbits, I came across this one that I seemed to have blocked out of my head. I only vaguely remember it, and that is with the prompting of the blog.]
Today I chopped and froze some more okra, which puts us at nearly two gallons of chopped frozen okra. I also seeded 38 jalepenos, filled them with cream cheese, and froze them. When we're ready to use them, I'll thaw, wrap bacon around them, and broil them. Tomorrow I plan on doing six more pints of bread and butter pickles and also some candied, pickled hot peppers if I have time. I realized there are two kohlrabi in the back of the refrigerator that I kind of had forgotten about. I suppose tomorrow I should take a good look and see if they are salvageable. If they are, I'll cube, roast them, and freeze.
I'm also running out of storage room. I cannot squeeze any more jars on the shelf in the pantry for home-canned things, and I am starting to squeeze them in wherever I can find room. It's not a bad problem to have, but it means I could be finding lost jars for quite a while.
The other thing we seem to be raising in the garden is rabbits. Yes, the gardens are fenced, but evidently not good enough. The reason we don't have watermelons is because the rabbits ate them all, and the only reason we have pie pumpkins growing is because they are hanging on the fence and the rabbits can't eat them.
I think the rabbits like the garden a lot. If you're a rabbit, what's not to like? It's secure from larger predators and from lawn mowers. There is take-out available everywhere you look. There's conveniently loose soil for digging homes. It's kind of rabbit heaven. It is also why J., as he was picking cucumbers yesterday, discovered a rabbit nest under some of the cucumber vines. There are three or four baby rabbits in it. They still have their eyes closed, but do have fur. They are pretty cute even if they do eat my vegetables. I'll worry about these baby bunnies a lot less than the ones who lived in the front yard of our old house.
[As I was looking for past posts about baby rabbits, I came across this one that I seemed to have blocked out of my head. I only vaguely remember it, and that is with the prompting of the blog.]
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