Ice Day

It's been the coldest winter in many years this year.  But today the temps danced around the freezing point, and we got some heavy ice. 

2013 Summary

2013 Harvest
Blueberries: 2 oz
Cucumbers: 9 lb 8 oz
Dried Beans (Multiple Varieties):
Eggs: 20 Dozen
Elderberries: 12 oz
Garlic: 5 lb 10 oz
Garlic - Elephant: 1 lb 2 oz
Grapes: 1 lb
Hops: 1 lb 4 oz
Onions - Purple: 8 lb 4 oz
Onions - Yellow: 7 lb 5 oz
Peaches: 1 lb 10 oz
Peppers: 10 lb
Potatoes: 4 lb
Raspberries/Blackberries: 2 lb 1 oz
Snow Peas: 4 oz
Strawberries: 19 lb 15 oz
Tomatoes: 67 lb 8 oz

2013 Production/Canning
Homebrew Red IPA: 5 gal
Homebrew Dark Mild: 5 gal
Homebrew Black IPA: 5 gal
Fermented Hot Sauce:
Zesty Salsa: 9 pints
Strawberry Jam: 5.5 pints
Peach Salsa: 12 pints
Salsa Verde: 10 pints
Roasted Roma: 9 pints
Tomato Puree: 10 quarts
Spicy Yellow Tomato Jam:
Onion Marmalade:
Caramelized Onion Jam:
Beer Mustard:
Spicy Red Tomato Jam:
Elderberry Jam:
Pear Brown Sugar Cinnamon Jam:
3-bean salad:
Pickled Red Onions:
Pepper Onion Relish:
Mango Peach Hot Sauce:
Pickled Pears: 2 pints
Strawberry Infused Vodka: 1 pint
Strawberry Infused Vinegar: 1 pint
Pear Cinnamon Infused Vodka: 2 quarts
Crab Apple/Pear Infused Vodka: 1 quart
Crab Apple Infused Brandy: 1 pint
Pomegranate Infused Vodka: 1 quart
Limoncello: 1 quart

Flowers from 2013

Summer Pics

Catching Up on 2013 Posts

Statler and Waldorf all grown up!

Overall Garden

Grape Arbor

Tomatoes

Tomatoes roasting for delicious Roasted Roma and Garlic.

A day's worth of hard work

Tomato Puree.

Canned tomatoes and peach salsa.

Delicious Salsa Verde - We are almost all the way through it already (even though I made a double recipe), I guess we'll have to triple the recipe next year!

Apples, Onions, and Cinnamon for the Onion Marmalade.

Overdue Update

So it's now the middle of July and we've been slacking on updates.

Strawberries were a good harvest back in early June. Small amount of Raspberries and a few blueberries followed.   After we planted the rest of the vegetable garden, we recently harvested the garlic and onions that were planted during the cold season.

With a record amount of rain in June, it appears that it was too humid for our pepper plants, as they are undersized and not great looking.   Potatoes and tomatoes are doing better recently.  Our bush beans are doing good, but the runner beans never got very far before the heat was too much.   Cucumbers are looking good so far, (knock on wood) we don't have the same cucumber beetle problem as the last two years.

Hops went strong from the get go, and topped out the trellis in late June, and are covered in maturing hop cones.

The new chicken enclosure is complete, the new coop inside is yet to be started.