More tomatoes

More tomatoes

Beans

More beans

blanched and ready for freezing

Salsa round 1

Fist round of salsa

Before cooking down

after cooking down

Tomato and pepper

Funky heirloom tomato


Some nice peppers

More beat pickling

Beats in the pot to be boiled


ready to be canned


6 pints of pickled beets

Potatoes

We got a few potatoes

Melons and squash

Water melon does not seem to do well in this garden
it got this big and stopped growing.


Honey dew melons did the same thing. Next year melons get the axe.


This funky squash seemed to have the same problem as the melons.

Tomatoes

Here is the first major picking of tomatoes this year. Time to make the salsa.

Beans and cucumbers

Here is the first major picking of beans.



starting to get a descent amount of cucumbers. Almost time to make pickles

Yellow pear tomatoes

Yellow pear tomatoes. I am not sure what we will do with them.

Return of the Mantis

Here is how the garden got its name.

Heirloom tomatoes

Heirloom tomatoes

Sauerkraut

We are making our own sauerkraut this year. This is the beginning.



Cabbage ready to be cut


Cabbage cut and salted

Jars

One of our neighbors is moving so we acquired all of there canning supplies

150 jars
96 pint
46 quart
4 2 quart
2 1/2 pint
2 water bath canners
144 small lids and rings
165 large lids

Just a few d0zen more jars and we will be set for this year ;-)



some of the Qt jars

more jars

2 Qt jars

Tomatoes cucumber and beans.

More tomatoes (one of them is a nice heirloom) cucumber and beans.

The pickling of the beets

Cut up red beets

The brine

A lone jar of golden beets.