Ended up having to water the garden yesterday.  Corn was stressing which is never good.  Looks better today and I think we might have even sparked the pumpkins’ interest in coming out of their seeds.  Last round of potatoes are popping except for the ones the voles ate.  When  I see some life out of my last big run of onions, all of the others are coming out.  Ready to continue with my garden clean out.   Cucumbers are history this weekend because they’ve been so useless.

Donovan went out with us to move the sprinkler the last time and he really had fun getting stuff from the garden.  He picked corn, green beans, peppers and onions.  Even some blackberries.  He’s really learning alot about what’s what, which is great.  I’m glad he’s excited about the process.  It’s just too cute to watch him walk around with his basket, filling it up.  I know, I should have gotten pictures, but I didn’t think about it until we were almost finished.

And on the canning note…Made cherry tomato pickles the other day and was so confident, I didn’t read all of the recipe, so I forgot about doing the brine solution instead of just straight vinegar.  Nasty things.  Still makes me shudder.  So I lost  3 pints of pickles, but luckily there are so many cherry tomatoes, I’ll never notice.  Mixed up my brine, used part of it on the batch I did yesterday, then stored the rest in quart jars.  Good for those times when we need a couple of jars as fillers in the canner in order to use a little less water on partial batches.

Today, it’s a repair job on a batch of salsa Scott wanted me to try and no one would eat.  Back to my old recipe, part out of a book, part my own creation.  I’ll have to put it on here later.  It’s what the kids expect when they eat salsa I make.  And apparently, from what Zak tells me, other people who have eaten it like it, too.  Maybe I should just start making and selling applesauce and salsa…..naaaaa….teaching’s easier.