It has been a long hot, dry summer, so I was not always out in the garden as often as I would have been in previous years when the heat spells were broken up with cooler weather. Never the less, things did grow with or without me. Besides what we ate fresh, I was able to can the following: 8 pts. strawberry jam, 2 qts. refrigerator dill pickles, 15 pts. green beans, 6 pts. beet pickles, 7 pts. raspberry jam, and a jar of syrup, 11 pts. garlic dill slicer pickles, 9 pints of dill relish, and 7 pts. of sweet relish, and 13 pints of diced tomatoes.
We also ate fresh cabbage, rhubarb, pulled about 20 garlic bulbs, 48 red, yellow onions, 15 pumpkin pie pumpkins, peppers, peas, cucumbers, tomatoes, and lettuces, and spinach, strawberries, raspberries, and corn. My garden journal has a long list of “no-nos” for next year, and suggestions for improvement. Still waiting on the two melons who decided to appear finally. I only got two carrots seeds to germinate after several plantings, but those two were the most perfect, beautiful carrots I have ever grown, really.