During August, our chickens laid 71 eggs, of which 54 made it to the house. That’s the fewest eggs laid since January. I don’t know if it was the heat, they’re really slowing down laying eggs, or what. I guess we’ll see in the next few months.
I said that June and July
were hectic, but then August came around.
There were several first harvest, such as kidney beans, corn,
watermelon, pears, etc. I got pictures
of some of these, but never seemed to have the time to post them. I also picked all of our onions and currently
have them drying.
The big thing, and part
of why this post is late, has been tomatoes.
In the last two weeks we’ve canned enough pizza sauce for twenty-two
pizzas, as well as enough spaghetti sauce for about twenty nights of
spaghetti. We still have about a dozen
jars from previous years, so we’ll have to go from having spaghetti once or
twice a month to two or three times a month.
And just yesterday, we canned about a dozen jars of just tomatoes. And there’s still more in the garden. I even started looking for recipes for
ketchup, just to use them up. Although,
my mom said somebody had made homemade ketchup some years ago, but they didn’t
care for it. But if we have more
tomatoes than we know what to do with, we might just try an experiment. I’ll let you know if we do.
