Canning Time....

It's that time of year - the garden is producing more veggies than we can eat or give away (hint hint family and friends come over here and pick pick pick)

it all started with some strawberry jam at my mom's (can't take credit for all these jars - Linda and my mom did most of them.... they use the recipe here on the Sure Jell box

One day of picking from the garden - yikes so I called Christine and we got to work - had to go to my mom's as my power line was down in my driveway... (don't ask how I got out)

here's our finished products - all from the garden how beautiful (July 20th)

Cole and Lexi even stopped by to make some pickled banana peppers that they grew

 This weekend (July 28th) there were more veggies including some ripe red tomatoes

 So Bill picked and I canned

 Blackberry's in Chambord 

Tomato Jam from Food in Jars website 

Bread and Butter pickles from Ball Bread and Butter Pickle Packet 

 and some bread and butter banana and jalapeno peppers from the same Ball packet

 22 Beautiful Jars - all from the garden :-)

The Garden 2013

Hey Blog Readers, Bill and I decided to retire from flower gardening like we did at 10th street and instead plant a garden... its big enough to feed the neighborhood so if you need veggies just stop by.  We started most everything from seed in a little pop up greenhouse we bought and as you can see things continue to grow and grow...

 A turtle who stopped by just before planting to lay some eggs....

Yes that's me - taking a break from all the weeding - the garden is organic so there's a ton of weeds... 

Solar powered fence to keep out the deer 

me in the tomato patch - they are over my head now 

for those of you who have been here before - check it out you can see the meadow from the yard after much landscaping... 

Not the garden but some nice landscaping improvements at FLW