Summer Project > Fall Project

The project for this summer was gardening and canning/pickling.

• Pickled Green Beans per Gabe's grandmothers recipe. They came out real good, still very crisp.
• Pickled Cucumbers per USDA Home Pickling Quick Pickling Guide. Did not add anything to make the pickles firm (i.e. Alum) so they tasted fine but the texture = no good. Gonna try to stomach them anyway.
• Lot's of green tomatoes in the garden, and we are rolling into October, so it may be time to make Picklelilly relish.

With regard to the garden. We got a good number of vegetables, but our methods/timing needed improvement. Except the peppers, everything almost got killed at one point or another, or was not given enough room to grow.

For next Year:

• Pay attention to when to start seeds.
• Start fewer seeds.
• Don't put plant's out too soon.
• Do something different with the lettuce.
• Fewer tomato plants/more space to grow/plant.
• Strings for tomato plants to grow up.