{"id":3577,"date":"2013-10-08T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2013-10-08T03:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T07:00:20","slug":"the-harvest-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/10\/08\/the-harvest-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The harvest continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bill-Bean-tomato\"<\/a>
\nEven though we’ve had several hard freezes, we are continuing to harvest here on our homestead. Will and I agree; we’ve never had a more productive garden. What a huge blessing! Especially after our month-late spring. I’m finally done canning corn, and am working on tomato products alternately with carrots now and will get to cabbage products real darn soon. Last night I oven-cooked-down another batch of tomato puree and am chopping green peppers and onions, getting ready to make another batch of spaghetti sauce. I think I’ll add mushrooms to this batch as the last one was plain. How wonderful to have so many choices!<\/p>\n

\"Tomato-sauce\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Green-peppers\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, our apple trees are hanging with ripe apples. We’re down to our Chestnut crab (with beautiful red and gold tasty apples), the Frostbite, and Cortland. If you’ve never heard of Frostbite and you live in a fairly cold zone (Zones 3-5), you want to give this apple a try. It’s crisp, tangy sweet, and has a unique wonderful flavor all its own! Oh, and did I say productive? The Chestnut is a great eating apple too, even though it is classified as a crab apple. You take a bite and the juice runs down your chin. So sweet and wonderful you want to eat a dozen.<\/p>\n

\"Frostbite-apples\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Our cabbages are getting simply unbelievable! One has already split so I have to get at them soon. We have one that Will is going to have to carry to the house in a wheelbarrow! It’s that big.<\/p>\n

I’ve been saving seeds from some of our favorite open pollinated tomatoes so I can sell a few next spring. It slows down the process of making tomato sauce. But there are getting to be quite a few seeds all dry and nice: Bill Bean, Punta Banda, Cherokee Purple, and our own Early Firefall. I squish out the seeds by hand into a pan, then add water and ferment for about 3 days. After skimming off the floating non-viable seeds and yucky stuff on top, I pour them into a sieve and rinse real well. I dry the seeds on an ice cream pail top with the variety name written on it in permanent marker. Not “professional” but it works for us.<\/p>\n

Well, back to the spaghetti sauce. Oh yes, the tick bite is MUCH better! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though we’ve had several hard freezes, we are continuing to harvest here on our homestead. Will and I agree; we’ve never had a more productive garden. What a huge blessing! Especially after our month-late spring. I’m finally done canning corn, and am working on tomato products alternately with carrots now and will get to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577"}],"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=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}