July 4th Garlic Harvest
Jul. 4th, 2007 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dalthauserToday I spent all day prepping and preparing garlic pickles and salsas.
It started out with a trip to the garden in the morning and seeing several of my garlics bursted open and snails on them (wet weather being the cause of both). I decided it was time to just pull it all up and deal with it. I also went ahead and picked a gallon of mild jalapenos and pulled up the remaining onions.
It took hours to prep the garlic, but I did it and ended up with about 5 pounds of prepped cloves and about 3 pounds of tender garlic greens.
I pickled 5 half pints of garlic cloves and froze another pint. I also prepped and canned 7 pints of salsa.
That pretty much took up the whole day. I did get out once to Walmart to buy more canning jars.
Sure will be glad when the weather dries up a little so I can get going in the garden - it's getting a little scary out there.
Pretty uneventful holiday.
Was kind of hoping I'd get invited over to someone's place - but no.
Not feeling sorry for myself. It was a good day nevertheless :-)
It started out with a trip to the garden in the morning and seeing several of my garlics bursted open and snails on them (wet weather being the cause of both). I decided it was time to just pull it all up and deal with it. I also went ahead and picked a gallon of mild jalapenos and pulled up the remaining onions.
It took hours to prep the garlic, but I did it and ended up with about 5 pounds of prepped cloves and about 3 pounds of tender garlic greens.
I pickled 5 half pints of garlic cloves and froze another pint. I also prepped and canned 7 pints of salsa.
That pretty much took up the whole day. I did get out once to Walmart to buy more canning jars.
Sure will be glad when the weather dries up a little so I can get going in the garden - it's getting a little scary out there.
Pretty uneventful holiday.
Was kind of hoping I'd get invited over to someone's place - but no.
Not feeling sorry for myself. It was a good day nevertheless :-)
