[Earthylady]

Today I'm going to work on some applesauce. This is the first year we've EVER had red tomatoes this early! In my 6 years of growing tomatoes, we've always gotten ripe ones in late August/early september. We started getting them in JULY this year! It's crazy!

We've sold 50 pounds of tomatoes on top of what we've used and given away about as many pounds. I do want to still can up some rotel (tomatoes and peppers), tomato soup, pasta sauce, and maybe try some homemade ketchup. Last year I made ketchup with a packet and it was ok, but I flubbed the directions up so it wasn't quite the way it was supposed to be. Maybe some pizza sauce.

I've blanched and frozen broccoli, canned some raspberry jelly, syrup and chocolate rasp. sauce, canned blackberry jelly, dilly beans, some sweet pickles and some green beans. I'm odd in that I don't like the texture of frozen beans or corn. I think it makes it kind of chewy and rubbery, so I prefer canned stuff. Maybe cause that's how my mom used to do it. She always canned stuff. I still remember the first time she served us frozen corn. I grossed out. LOL

Anyway. Our potatoes are starting to get done now too. I'm starting to think we may have planted too much. I'm praying our storage efforts turn out better this year than last.