I’ve manage to trick myself into believing that things in the garden are wrapping up. Maybe it isn’t a complete lie. At least it appears that way with the plants I’ve removed.

More Tomatoes

Between the bugs and the blight, I picked the last tomatoes for the year over the weekend. Even with the early end, we still managed to can pizza sauce and freeze spaghetti sauce and diced tomatoes. The seedless tomatoes saved a lot of time.

Shredded Zucchini

We now have enough shredded zucchini in the freezer for zucchini muffins until next year. The kiddos love zucchini muffins, so I made sure we had at least enough zucchini for 30 two-dozen batches of muffins. Once we hit that magic number, I pulled out the plant. I was only checking the plant every couple days and was tired of finding that a zucchini that needed one more day before picking ended up over two feet long… whoops.

Carrots

About a quarter of the carrots have been dug up. What the kiddos haven’t snacked on fresh, have been sliced, blanched, and frozen – about 8 quarts worth. What Peanut doesn’t eat, will go into soups and casseroles.

We also canned 18 quarts of dill pickles. After giving away/swapping a few jars, we’ll have all the pickles we’ll need until next summer.

And then there’s the stuff we don’t have photos of… The eggplant are just getting started and the green and red peppers are in full swing – I picked 25 of them on Sunday. Also, even though our green beans are done, more fresh green beans keep showing up for Peanut from family members. For the last two months, the blender has been on a continuous circle of going from the counter to the dishwasher and back to the counter, never making it back to it’s spot in the cabinet.

So with all that out of the way, there’s still potatoes, pumpkins, squash, melon, garlic, onions, peppers, eggplant, carrots, raspberries, and possibly a late run of sweet corn to go. See why I’ve decided it was just easier to lie to myself? If only everything didn’t taste so dang good…