In the Garden 2017

Well the tomatoes are plumping up nicely
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There's a "ground cherry" plant that someone gave me in the spring. It's been super easy to grow, I basically stuck it in the ground and walked away. Making lots of little ground cherries now. I've had them before, they're really sweet. I think it's related to a tomatillo.
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And we harvested a couple "Japanese fingerling" eggplants. Check out the double!
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Ok Tuzi, those fingerling eggplants are really cool. I have to look into those

First tomatoes this season. Still waiting on the cucumbers to give fruit, and the peppers are coming along nicely.

Not really from the garden but a tree right next to the garden. I harvested some chokecherries, probably a bit early but I have some stiff competition from the birds or some other critters this year. As soon as the cherries are dark they disappear. Normally I would wait until they are a little darker but, oh well I enjoy the tart astringent taste anyways.

There are still many more on the tree so I will keep a close eye on them and hopefully get them before the critters do.

Here I am making chokecherry leather in the dehydrator. First I got the pits out, then a couple pulses in the food processor, then from thin strips on parchment paper into the dehydrator. I'll check them in a few hours and if they can hold together I'll slip them off the paper and straight on the rack to speed up drying. These are not everyone's favorite but I have a real taste for them!

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I ended up with 8 strips of "leather", it worked very well. I think they taste great, but a little too tart for my wife. Next time I will consider adding something sweet like apples or pears perhaps. Here's four of them....
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These are different - "lemon" cucumbers. Yellow and round kind of like a lemon but it's a cucumber. Good tasting ones too! We're growing them right alongside our regular cucumbers.
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Todays batch of fallen apples.

I think we are getting to the point where I can go picking. Hoping I can get a clear 10kg. See if I can't make me some cider.

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Those look great, i hear it's a good year for apples, at least around where I live. I think it's because there was no freeze/frost to damage the early flowers in the spring? Or maybe the right amount of rain?

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Those look great, i hear it's a good year for apples, at least around where I live. I think it's because there was no freeze/frost to damage the early flowers in the spring? Or maybe the right amount of rain?

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They are good this year. They used to be rather badly scabbed, but this year they are looking much happier.

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Todays harvest, some from the ground some picked.

So far we have made an apple crumble and a pie to take to my mother in laws today.

I reckon next weeke d I am going out with a big bucket and collecting enough to make up 10kg. Then I'm makin cider.

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