Hillside Gardens

• Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - I haven't been on here in a while. . .

for several reasons. The kids have started t-ball for the spring, which really takes up our evenings. I've been trying a new project- flower jellies. So far, I've made violet jelly and started on dandelion jelly. The violet jelly was beautiful, and the kids and I loved it. Dh hasn't tried it yet. I took pictures throughout the whole process, but haven't yet gotten them to the computer.

I bought two Nubian-pygmy cross does to be milk goats, and they need some taming, which is also time consuming. They weren't bred, as the people I bought them from had no billy, so I'm hoping to have kids in the fall.

Finally, we went and bought our garden plants Monday afternoon. Seventy-two plants each of Roma and Better Boy tomatoes, 72 green peppers, a few eggplant, lots of onions, too many seeds to mention. We had also started plants at home this year, and I have way too many jalapeno plants, twelve heirloom tomatoes of various colors, and lots of basil. I have a recipe for homemade pesto that is supposed to be wonderful, so I'm expecting to use lots of basil!

Please forgive me if I don't keep up with all of this going on. I'm going to try to post tutorials of some of the jellies and other canning I do this season, but it will be as I find time!

Sara