Garden goodness

Over the weekend, I managed to get a good bit of gardening done. We froze green beans and some sweet corn; made dill pickles and pickled some chili peppers. I made some more rhubarb jam, modifying the recipe a bit. I'm still not satisfied with it, but another try might make it.

I pulled a beet that had gotten huge, boiled it, and ate it. The rest of the beets are still too small to make beet pickles out of yet. Maybe next weekend.

We continue to pick raspberries, but because the patch is new, there aren't enough to freeze or make jam out of.

Jim and Shannon picked wax beans and canned 12 quarts. Shannon also gave us a nice blueberry jam she had made. It was really good with homemade yogurt.

All in all, a very productive weekend. The tomatoes are still at least a week or two away. The green peppers are starting to be close to ready and my second planting of green beans is looking very healthy.