Calm before the harvest storm! Lovely! Chuck
What's Growing in the Garden
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Mine looks like that, but unfortunately, it's all weeds
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What isnt?!?
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The Armenian bulb I weighed was a little over 4 oz. You'll probably get two of those with around 6-8 cloves per bulb. Montana is a porcelain type like Armenian and should be similar.
The Spanish Roja' and Chesnok will be smaller and would guess 3 bulbs of each of those with probably 10-12 cloves each.
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Pears, pears, pears. Got a decision to make. These are Starking Delicious and small, but they are ripe. Hundreds left on the tree yet. Have a small batch in the canner right now to test how they can, taste and decide on syrup sugar levels. The problem is these are small and take forever to process.
On the other hand, are my Bartlett pears which are huge, but not ripe yet. More than enough of them to fill the shelf with jars, but they are still hanging in the tree and no guarantee they won't get blown off in a storm before they are ripe.
I know one in the hand is worth two in the bush, but the one in hand takes twice as long to process.
The test batch is out of the canner and they didn't disintegrate so they passed the first test. Either way, going to pick these as they are a total waste if they just fall off the tree. Have many who would like some fresh pears if nothing else.
On the other hand, are my Bartlett pears which are huge, but not ripe yet. More than enough of them to fill the shelf with jars, but they are still hanging in the tree and no guarantee they won't get blown off in a storm before they are ripe.
I know one in the hand is worth two in the bush, but the one in hand takes twice as long to process.
The test batch is out of the canner and they didn't disintegrate so they passed the first test. Either way, going to pick these as they are a total waste if they just fall off the tree. Have many who would like some fresh pears if nothing else.
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They look great! What else ya got to do?
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Well, if you really want to know...... Tomato juice, whole tomatoes, Lima beans, green beans, sweet corn, broccoli, raspberries, and that's just the produce that's ready to pick and preserve. Then there's the ,........ All the rain in July has turned everything into a jungle that just won't stop.
We are fortunate this year so I shouldn't complain - I know others don't have/can't grow this abundance, but does it all have to come at once?
Wish I had a bunch of pears to make pear butter
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I'd give you a bunch, but we are a little too far north for your route to SWAT, and you'll be about a week too late for these.
But speaking of pear butter, we made some pear sauce a couple years ago. Liked the flavor, but the grainy texture was off putting. Does the butter retain that grainy texture?
It does a little
It also depends on the type pears and if you peel them or not
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Here's some of the raspberries. Not worrying too much about them, still have ~ 25 quarts in the freezer.
Yum. Its been a bad year for me. I haven't canned the first thing. Gotta get back at it next year. Shelves are getting thin. Got enough to last til then
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We tend to run a 9 month to a year backup too on everything that is canned or frozen. It is a lot of work, but we are a 30 minute drive to the grocery store, so nice to have options on the shelf.
We are only 15 minutes to town but having a freezer and pantry full saved a lot of trips. We grow and preserve a good amount and watch the sales. I recently bought a whole boneless pork loin for $1.49/# . If you add some home grown veggies that makes for around 20 very inexpensive delicious meals for two people.
In the interest of science send me a quart of raspberries so I can run a set of comparison test with Oregon raspberries. Solely in the interest of science. I would get no personal satisfaction, honest.
Love this time of year, I made myself a garden Sammy for lunch. Lettuce, cucumber, green peppers, tomato, onion with cheese and thousand Island dressing, on whole wheat. Pretty hard to get your mouth around but it stayed together pretty well 
Love this time of year, I made myself a garden Sammy for lunch. Lettuce, cucumber, green peppers, tomato, onion with cheese and thousand Island dressing, on whole wheat. Pretty hard to get your mouth around but it stayed together pretty well
what no meat? Gotta have meat. At least a few strips of bacon on there. That would be GREAT!!@
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Well, he did have some protein in the cheese..... Definitely not the same as BACON though!