Thursday, June 19, 2008

• Canning

  Well, I canned my salsa yesterday and today I canned 4 pints of crushed tomatoes.  I’m just doing small batches as I cut them off the vine.  It has been so much fun having my girls in the kitchen with me peeling and cutting tomatoes and getting them ready to can.  Spaghetti sauce is on the list for next week.  I have about 30 pounds of tomatoes to make it with so I should get a pretty good amount.  My plants are about done for the year.  I’m going to try to get a few more weeks out of them, but it is in the 90’s daily!  Once the nighttime temps don’t go below 80, they stop blooming so there is no point in keeping them.  The only thing keeping blooming right now is all the rain we are getting.  It drops the temps down into the low 70’s at night so I’m still getting a few blooms.  I want to get out there and weed everything really good, cut the dead leaves off, fertilize really well and spray with a fungicide (you have to where I live or the plants would rot away) and then pray really hard that I get a few more weeks out of the plants.  If not we only have 2 months till we can plant them again.  I’ll take what I can get! 

   

  Well we are going swimming now.  We have about an hour before we have to get ready dance and then VBS.  Swimming is just a nice down time after being in the kitchen all morning.

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