About every other day we're getting this many berries, YEAH! The berries are not as big as last year, but they are OH! So! sweet. :o)
Beautiful aren't they? We put them of cookie sheets and freeze them. This way we can add them to a freezer bag and when needed can remove as many or as few as we like. They make great treats, just to pop in your mouth*wink*
Here is a bag off frozen berries, that we'd picked two days earlier.
You can also see some of the zucchini we've been harvesting on a daily basis in the first photo. Peppers are coming on and we're making the best of them, in fact sometime this week we're making stuffed peppers for supper.
Night before last, we did suffer some frost damage to our pumpkins, zukes and cukes but I think they'll keep producing until a hard freeze comes. The pumpkins are pretty well finished anyway and we're getting tired of the zukes, just praying we get some more cukes because we've not had the opportunity to harvest many yet. After the hail they were slow inn recovering and now the frost burn. I'm hoping to get enough to make a few quarts of bread and butter pickles and a few pints of sweet relish.
Today is yet another cool, grey day*sigh* Oh! well it makes harvesting more comfortable and eventually we NEED to catch up on weeding, before it's time to till it under for the winter.
Off to clean the house, we've got company coming tomorrow and we're also going to harvest our Painted Mountain corn, we've got some really beautiful color combinations this year! I'll post pictures of the ears soon!
Until then Blessings for your week!
9 comments:
Yummo to the berries! Do you have any idea how much they are worth? Like little gold nuggets! The grocers here has them for $3.99 for a teeny tiny , I swear, 1/2 cup! Mmmm...how's about some jam?
Cyn,
We've already made 24 jelly jars full, so we're good on that for awhile and if we run low they're just in the freezer. I tried canning just the berries but they didn't turn out very good and as you said they are golden nuggets*wink* Funny thing people here in our area, already grow their own or they aren't interested. We tried selling them at farmer's market last year, approx. 2qt jars full for $5.00 and only sold one, can you believe it? It seems there are areas in MT that are waking up to buying local and eating fresh, but unfortunately our area isn't one of them :o( So, therefore the people who do buy from us are having to be re-educated otherwise they think they should come and buy fresh from the farm for less than they'd pay at a grocery store*sigh* Selling eggs or butchered turkeys is the same way,this is why we've decided to cut back on those areas and raise just for ourselves. The feed bill is putting a big ole pinch in our budget and we're donating the eggs to the local pantry. Not that there is anything wrong with that but not the point we'll need assistance*sigh* Thank you for your comment and I wish we were closer, we'd share :o)
Beautiful berries! I can't believe you are already getting frost!
Those beries sure look good. What a blessing to have all that harvest. You guys work very hard.
woohoo Kelle!
YUM!!!!!!!
Kelle, I can just imagine all the great and yummy things that you are going to make with all of those berries. I think I just gained a pound thinking of it. lol
Thanks everyone, we do feel so very blessed to be getting such a great harvest.Especially with all of our weather setbacks in what I'm calling it "Our Summer without Summer!"
Yes, we're making yogurt smoothies again, UMMMM, UMMMMM and We've collected some great recipes that use raspberries and we're excited to give them a try once things slow down a bit.
It would seem like work, but truly it is a "labor of love"*wink* If it ever got to feeling like a job I think I'd quit because it would no longer be a fun hobby.
Those berries look really good, so does the other veggies.
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