Summer really shifts in to high gear now that the garden has started to produce vegetables for our table. We have already picked beets, green beans, squash, onions, and lettuce. With the abundant rainfall it is certain we will be busy harvesting more crops within the next few weeks.
Today we harvested two rows of Roma green beans. After giving some away, we still canned and processed 16 pints- not bad for the first picking. One cabbage head also made 6 pints of sauerkraut. The yellow squash was steamed, cooled, and frozen in quart bags. We pickled the beets.
The outdoor sink was very useful in washing our produce before bringing it in the house. The beans were rather dirty after all the heavy rainfall. All the water we used to wash the vegetables was caught in a bucket and recycled back into the garden. Hopefully we will soon have a shed over the sink to give us some shade from the hot summer sun.
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