Mid December Gardening~

It looks like our FALL GARDEN may carry on over into Winter. Here is just a sampling of what we are still getting from our raised beds. These are radishes we picked this week.  We still have some in the ground and are picking as needed.   Green onions—I’m really happy with these.  Some were harvested and eaten when they were still small. (small inexperienced hands helped in the picking) I probably could have stuck those small ones back into the soil to let them get bigger. But hey~ live and learn.  Our first real overnight freeze took out the ‘LONE’ tomato plant that held over from the summer drought months. It was loaded with tomatoes. After doing some reading- the best advice was to set them out and let them ripen on their own. After a couple of weeks we finally did something with the red ones.  We yielded about 8 1/2 cups of chopped red tomatoes; we still have green tomatoes today that are turning. They are still SO tasty! It’s wonderful to have fresh homegrown tomatoes in Mid-December.
Eight cups of tomatoes made about 4 1/2 pints of salsa!  Of course we used the fresh onion and some other ingredients from our freezer to make this and the Ball Blue Book recipe (with minor adjustments because of lack of tomatoes) …but it taste pretty good for my first time to can salsa.  The Husband likes it …and that’s all that matters!

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