We are crazy busy with the garden right now. Liz calculated today that she could work full time on the garden for the next week and not be caught up. She was not kidding. We feel super blessed by the bounty, so we won't complain. We did things this year that we've never done--canned beans, made eggplant baby food--and grown so many things.
Jacob pulled our onions today. We will spread them to cure in the basement before using them as fast as possible. We don't have cold storage, so things won't always store as long as we would like.
Two of our peach trees produced a little bit this year and we harvested most of the fruit today. This is from the Elberta tree and it tastes like sunshine and youth. I wish we had 100 times as many.
I want to say this was our harvest today, but the more accurate description would be that this is what Liz picked during a garden walk to stave off oversize vegetables and rotting fruits. And, this wasn't until after the beans, onions, potatoes, peaches, and beets had all been harvested.
These are the roots sitting out so the moist earth will dry before we take then inside. As you can see, we (the boys) like to segregate the vegetables by the color of the their skin. Vegetable racists. We took up all the potatoes and we are sorely wishing for more. Now we know--more potatoes next year!
Our chicks have finally crossed over into the land of pullets and we have been pulling in more and more eggs. We are in the high teens per day and we should settle around 2 dozen a day when all the ladies are laying. We find that with all our adopting from friends this year, we ended up with 5 roosters, way too many for our small flock, so we are going to have to give four of them away. It's really too bad because we will have to say goodbye to our Golden Polish with the pompon head and Violet, the one we nursed back to health, who, as it turns out, is a rooster. Drat. Why didn't our friends purchase their birds more carefully? Who knows. We love them anyway.
