On to Salsa and Pie Filling

The pantry has enough jars of tomato sauce. I ended this production run with 32 quarts, which have been added to about a dozen left from last year. That should do us. I’m moving on.

Yesterday morning, I made a few trips out to the garden with the golf cart and wagon:

This is such a great setup. WS came over in the afternoon to get eggs and wanted to know how much we wanted for the golf cart. The husband told him it was not for sale.

[I have let him drive it around the driveway a couple of times—with me in it, no less.]

A few years ago, Elysian introduced all of us to the Georgia Candy Roaster Squash. I planted one plant this year. It produced these:

They are huge. I’m glad I planted the Georgia Roaster, though. I can use this for my pumpkin pie filling in case the Winter Luxury pumpkins don’t ripen. It’s going to be close with the pumpkins and the butternut squash.

I brought in all of the Georgia Roasters, the last of the zucchini—I pulled the plants—and a couple of watermelons. The chickens love watermelon rinds. Putting a watermelon rind in the chicken yard is like putting a piece of meat into a tank full of piranhas.

I’ve also got a couple of volunteer tomato plants in the squash plot. I can’t tell if there are two separate plants (they are huge) or one mutant variety. I had both Black Strawberry and a Zebra variety in that area last year. Whatever came up is producing these, which look a little like both:

It is barely controlled chaos with the DNA out there, let me tell you. I might save seed from these and see what I get next year. The husband said that if I develop a new variety, I can call it the “Janato.” Such a comedian.

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It rained off and on yesterday. After lunch, I made the backing for the I Spy quilt and got the top basted together with batting and backing. I’d like to get it quilted this afternoon. I also worked on trimming half-square triangles for the baby quilt. They are coming along.