Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, potatoes, celery, lettuce, cucumber, zucchini, onions. garlic. kale, corn, basil, and apples Field Notes. Ken is getting the short season fall crops in now. The long season fall crops are doing well. He got the year’s compost mixed for next season. And in his spare time it’s mowing, weeding, and harvesting. Weeds that aren’t mowed will drop seeds for a new crop …
Ken loves stone fruit like cherries and peaches. They top the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list of food with high pesticide residues, so I only buy organic. Last year a friend got a couple boxes she had ordered; there was extra so I got some. This year I begged her to order some for me. Ken loves canned peaches, and people often ask how do I can peaches. First make a syrup. This …
Ken loves peaches so this year we ordered boxes of organic peaches to enjoy all year. First a few were ripe so I made jam. The large jars are apple juice from the steam juicer Then I froze some And today I canned one large batch and then a smaller batch to use up the syrup I had. Then I tried …
