Watering the garden keeps it alive, but it just doesn’t seem to do the same thing as a good rain. The tomatoes especially seemed to look a little sad Saturday night. The plan was to get up really early Sunday morning and water the garden. Fortunately 1.4” of rain fell overnight. The garden was really happy and yielded a whole bunch of stuff.
Sunday, the ground was really too wet to do much outside. The morning was spent canning and preserving. We put up 10 jars of vegetable stew and dried a dryer full of patty pan squash and another dryer full of figs. Also about a quart of cherry peppers was initiated into the pickling process. Friday morning we put up 11 jars of tomatoes and 10 jars of fig preserves.
To pickle the cherry peppers, just cut the stems and seeds out and pack them in a jar with pickling salt and a solution of 1/3 water and 2/3 apple cider vinegar. They need a follower to hold them under the solution and they should hang out in the jar or crock for about 6 to 8 days.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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