wow, great pictures. Happy eating

good for you!

you photo of all of your canning looks like my place :)

It might have been a "butt ugly " tomato, but I bet it still tasted good! :o)

Wow! You have been busy! All that fresh produce (including the ugly tomato) looks great!

Absolutely amazing!

I enjoyed the pictures! I envy you and wish I knew how to can vegetables.

Totally AWESOME! I used to can too, but without the kids, and now without a yard there is no more canning going on.

Who knows, maybe in the future I will pick it up again.

Like you, I just love to garden, and I miss it terribly.

Moni

PS, the pictures weren't overly large for my computer.

Wow you really have been busy and obviously have a great green thumb!! I wish I knew more about canning etc. also. I am just getting into veggie gardening a little and herbs.
Bet your hubby and kids LOVE all the work you have done.

Oh my gosh; I'm so jealous! I wish I had inherited the desire to do that! I'd LOVE to have my shelves full of home grown stuff. I did finally make some strawberry freezer jam, but that's all I can muster up. You are lucky to have the desire and the energy and the knowledge to do all that!

You have been very busy! Home-made grape jelly is fabulous.

I am really impressed...and envious! My mother was a little country girl and had a green thumb--I did not inherit that from her. There is nothing as good as home-canned veggies.

I remember those days! It was an exciting time when the corn was ready and the tomatoes started ripening.

Here's a link to a thread from the Photography Forum in which Mongoct gives a useful tip for resizing photos to be posted. Until I read his instructions, I didn't know you could specify the width when you insert the HTML code. The width is specified after the closing quotation mark (with a space in between). I use this tip a lot.

The other thing you can do is resize in your photo hosting program. Photobucket offers presets like 480x640, the standard dimensions for posting photos online.

Hope this helps.

I absolutely love concord grapes! I can almost taste that sweet goodness from that photo! Great looking tomatoes and corn! Our tomatoes are coming along, I have thousands of grape and cherry tomatoes on the vines and dozens of the Big Boys as well. We are eating the grape and cherry maters as they ripen....the others will probably all ripen the same week! LOL!! I wish I knew how to can.

That's just wonderful! Now take a break!

That is freakin' awesome! And impressive! I wish I knew how to do all that. I've only ever planted some flowers, annuals at that, ha, lame I know.

I really am envious of you. I would love to have all those veges put up for the winter and not have to pay outrageous prices at the store.

You are all that and a bag of chips!!

How bout emailing me one of those maters for a mater sammach for lunch. LOL!!

Linda

You really have been working hard and it all looks so good! Thanks for posting the pictures.

Sue

it looks just toooo wonderful for words...You've worked very hard but you're gonna be glad come winter!!

oh my goodness you have me drooling over here!! What a beautiful bounty you have there. Canning is one thing I have never done, I used to help my mother and grandmother when I was young but never attempted it myself. Those tomatoes are just incredible.

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I enjoyed the pictures-don't apologize!

What a glorious harvest that you have! That's a huge tomato ... do the extra large ones like that taste as good as the regular-sized ones?

Pictures just a tiny bit hung over the right edge ... but when I slid the slider across ... I got an ad ... so I only did it once.

Last year I took a dozen or so ears of corn to the churches on one Sunday, and figured that there'd be a great harvest the next week.

There were dozens of ears ... strewn on the ground ... with a bit chewed on each. I made the mistake of counting - 12 dozen!

Corn out in tassel, this year ... should ask the landlord if he has a gun that I can borrow to cramp the coons' syle.

Beans something of a disappointment - got a few two weeks ago, some last weekend, but noticed that there were few flowers, and not many ripening now. Last year I had large pickings for about three weeks. Maybe the lack of rain (after an overabundance in the spring) may be the main reason.

Looks like a good crop of tomatoes coming.

I may be fairly well preserved in body ... but not in the canning line ... but I freeze some beans, peas, etc.

Oh - the peas were a disappointment - planted a fairly large number, but only about a half dozen plants deigned to make an appearance.

Good wishes for a bountiful winter.

ole joyful

P.S. Jes wonderin' ... how many babboon's a$$es you son may have seen, for comparison purposes??

o j

That all looks so good, and you sure have been busy. Those yummies are going to be some real treasures, especially in the winter.

I use to do a lot of that too. I loved standing back and just looking, with pride, at all my cellar shelves full of goodies. I just hated using the "Last Jar" of any one kind!

Your kind words are appreciated, and your advice about resizing pictures was helpful as well.
The variety of tomato that is shown as the mammoth tomato is a German Johnson tomato, a heirloom type tomato. Also we grew the German Johnson Pinks Variety a heirloom tomato. Our cherry tomato variety was Sweet 100's.

There was a small difference in the flavor of the two heirloom varieties with the German Johnson variety being sweeter than the German Johnson Pink variety.

Happy Gardening!

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