{"id":10557,"date":"2024-08-19T17:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T21:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10557"},"modified":"2024-08-19T17:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T21:53:20","slug":"were-starting-our-first-serious-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/08\/19\/were-starting-our-first-serious-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re starting our first serious harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I’ve been pulling in Costata Romanesco summer squash for a month now, along with harvesting lettuce and lots of asparagus (which I also canned up), our main gardens’ first big harvest is tomatoes. Yesterday I went out and picked several containers full of various tomatoes. Wow, there are so many! I was surprised as our season has been a little late due to the set-back from all the rain earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

Not to waste these luscious tomatoes, which I carefully seeded out, I cut them to remove the stem and any rough scars, meaning to save them for sauce to can. It took longer than I’d planned but by evening I had a nice kettle full, along with lots of cups and jars with labeled tomato seeds, fermenting on the kitchen counter. I usually run them through my Victorio tomato strainer to remove the skins, but it was late. So, I tossed them in my Ninja blender, one batch at a time and whizzed them up, skins and all. I’ve done this many times, especially with salsa and found it results in a nice product.<\/p>\n

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Today, I’m canning up tomato sauce from the tomatoes I seeded out yesterday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The puree, I dumped in a turkey roasting pan and added a few spices and lemon juice to make sure the acidity was fine. I put it in the oven all night at 200 F, with the door cracked a little to release steam. This morning, it was nicely cooked down and thick.<\/p>\n

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I can smaller batches in a large stockpot with a rack in the bottom, so I use less water and it’s faster to heat to boiling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, I’m canning up the sauce. It isn’t as much as I usually do when I’m really canning. But it’s great to know I didn’t waste those tomatoes! Right now, there aren’t enough tomatoes to both save seeds and can \u2014 this is a nice compromise. While I’m waiting for the tomato sauce to process, I’m relaxing and looking out the window at our lily bed in the backyard. Wow, those lilies just don’t quit! I’m so glad I planted a few, here and there. Now, they’ve multiplied and look awesome.<\/p>\n

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I’m so happy our sparsely planted lily bulbs have multiplied!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I’ve been pulling in Costata Romanesco summer squash for a month now, along with harvesting lettuce and lots of asparagus (which I also canned up), our main gardens’ first big harvest is tomatoes. Yesterday I went out and picked several containers full of various tomatoes. Wow, there are so many! I was surprised as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10561,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557\/revisions\/10561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}