Harvest time. Yes. It is good to have lots of food from the garden but this is when it gets a little tiring. Some foods like the grapes need to be dealt with in a timely manner. We waited a little longer than we should have this year and ended up with sweet juice. Usually we make the juice before all of the grapes are ripe and the under ripe fruit adds a little tartness to the juice. The sweet juice is good though, and we didn't have to add sugar.
It was cold this weekend so we had a pile of basil from our neighbor to deal with Friday evening before the the predicted frost. B made and froze a huge batch of pesto.
We also made another batch of tomato sauce and two batches of ofapple sauce. All of this cooking helped heat the house a little. We didhave a fire in the wood stove last night so we put the BIG canner ontop of that and canned nine jars at once!
P and I have also cooked and frozen about 20 cups of pumpkin. She likes to turn the crank on the ricer.
She also likes to eat pumpkin muffins so it is good she likes to help.
All this work now will make things easier in the winter. When we are snowed in, we can go to the basement and be able to make a meal from what we have stored. potatoes, onions, garlic, tomato sauce, pesto, applesauce, grape juice, green beans, green peas, strawberry rhubarb pie fillings, peach pie fillings, peach blueberry pie fillings, jam, raspberry jam, pumpkin, blueberries.
We still have a lot more applesauce to make to last the year.
