We picked our first tomato on July 5th! I personally think it is a great way to celebrate our Independence! We've even had enough to can 5 quart jars and of course we've eaten lots of fresh garden salsa and have already had BLT's a couple times.
There's been some problems with our trellis design and we've had some plants fall over, but thankfully we were able to pull them back up and create a new cage around them. A few green tomatoes did fall off in the process but I think the plants themselves are going to pull through.
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| This was our first big harvest of the year. |
We've been eating LOTS of cucumbers. Julie's family has a favorite recipe of cucumbers with salt and mayo, and we made up a recipe of yogurt with lemon juice, dill and salt (kind of like Greek tzatziki, but with mostly cucumbers). We've also been putting cucumbers in berry smoothies; we were surprised at how good it is!
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| Strawberries we picked in Iowa. 8qts in the freezer and we canned 12 pints of jelly | | | |
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These with some vanilla ice cream is one of our favorite deserts!!
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| Nice sized zucchini squash |
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We like to grill them... enough said!
