Sisyphus Acres

This weekend's harvest...almost done...

Well this weekend I pulled in the rest of the garden...almost, everything except the leeks and a few onions I'd like to leave a little longer to finish bulbing up, so, here is the tally for this weekend.

10 Brussell sprout plants, not sure how many lbs. yet, but looks like about 8

30 onions, white, yellow and red

12 or so sunflower head, all over a foot accross!!

10 celery bunches

10 cabbage heads

1 pound broccolli ~ still producing, but we need to put the garden to sleep before the ground starts to freeze, the snow is halfway down Mt. Washington now, so it's only a week or so away from snow...

This weekend started getting harvest decorations up, finished in the garden, we had our annual church harvest dinner, I was in charge of the dining room this year (nervewracking!!), and yesterday after church rested ~ my knee was throbbing ~ notsomuch from gardening, but the church dinner is served in a hall w/ cement, and I was on my feet there for 4 hours after being in the garden for 4-5 hours...can we say overdoing it?!

I packed up the cranberry beans, finally all dry ~ packed up the edamame for freezing.  Tonight I plan to bake the chocolate zucchini bread and make ketchup ~ yes ketchup ~ I was talking out loud to myself about what I was going to do with the tomatoes, whether I was going to just can them off or if I was going to make sauce and my dad asked, can you make ketchup?  so I looked up some recipes and I'm going to try it tonight, we'll see.

I may try barbeque sauce too!

Well, need to get back to work...toodles!  val