Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Tropical storm warning and the backyard garden

Here's a first. We are canning peppers for jelly, picking zipper peas for freezing and we end up with a tropical storm warning.  That's never happened before. We had wind and over 3 inches of rain in a day.
The backyard garden fared well, we actually needed some rain for the peppers and peas but there's a lot of small branches and debris to clean up. We are fortunate not to be affected like they were in Florida though.

Sunday, September 3, 2017

Picking and canning in September

We had a great picking day yesterday especially with the first zipper peas of the season. Looks like vegetables for dinner tonight. We also picked our weekly amounts of sweet and hot peppers which we turned into pepper jelly, pickled jalapenos and hot bananas, mint jelly and pineapple jalapeno jelly.