Corn and Tomato Salsa 2015

From the Complete Book of Pickling Pg 155

 Mantis cut

 Regular salsa

There is not a time listed for quarts so we used the time for tomato sauce 40 min

Tomato Seed Saving 2015

Garden update August 8 2015

The tomato are doing well this year despite the blight and blossom rot.

The peppers are doing good as well but there is some rot on them as well.

We have one nice pumpkin

and a nice Blue Hubbard but the squash bugs are out of control!

Beans

Our neighbors had more rows of beans that they were not picking anymore so we picked all we could stand

24 lb jade green beans
11 Lb Yellow way
This is on top of the 4 lb of beans we picked from our garden

We will be

Freezing some
Canning some
and giving away a lot

From Ball Blue Book

Sophia's Bread and Butter Pickles

We used 4 cups of onions 

Pickles and relishes  book Pg 45