Beautiful weather today. Picked 3 - 2.5 gal buckets of plumbs and a market basket full of yellow beans. A good year in the garden.
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Gardening ..again
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Another busy garden day. Started by finishing the plumb harvest, another 4 gallons worth. Helped with the canning of the pear sauce. Started picking the Aronias, harvested 3 3/4# and many more to go. Lastly filled another container of Black Berries and froze them.
Picking & processing continues. Picked another 5 lbs of Aronia Berries today, they get frozen to be processed later. 2 containers of Black Berries picked & frozen. Plumb work continues, filled the dehydrator with one batch and pitted & froze 10 pounds.
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Finished picking the Aronia berries yesterday. 19.5 lbs total in the freezer. After the Elderberry harvest the 2 will be combined and cooked to make a tonic. Tomatoes are being canned today.
I don't know about tonic, I would be adding sugar and yeast to those berries. Elderberry makes a decent wine.
If I had to guess, I’d be betting that “tonic” is a code word for “wine”.
No it makes Tonic. The Wife is a nurse and believes it is a boost to the immune system. The fact that we haven't had flu or cold for many years may be proof or living like backwoods hermits helps.
I grew up believing Elderberries was good for the immune system as well, along with raw honey. I don't catch the flu nor have I had the covid. Wine is a great way to save the berries benefits for years. When all your berry crop ripens at one time making it into wine keeps it from being wasted. A barrel of wine does more good than a church full of saints.
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Heck yeah. And sometimes feeling good is good enough
I'm just gonna keep my fingers crossed for next year.
I think you're gonna do big things next year Amigo.
Update on the 55 gal. barrel w/both ends cut out , dirt , and three three inch fruit size tomato plants. Since 1st week of Aug. , this shindig has given 18 nice big sandwich type ripe tomato's. The vines are near 6' staked and fortified w/hemp twine to hold the vines from breaking with the weight of 20 more green tomato's. This plantation survived the Debby storm , three 3" , a 5" , and strong winds w/o damage. I'm amazed. I had an attack of 6 tomato horn worms while I was away for a week. Some kind of a wasp came by and layed white , sorta like magots on the worms. The parasites put a hurting on the worms , and they did little damage. All is well. Crop success was no doubtdue to answered prayer. T
