This year there will be no canning of salsa, or freezing of spaghetti sauce. The tomatoes have produced very poorly this year, barely eeking out enough for my Greek salads for lunch. I do exaggerate though, here are my surplus tomatos after making my salad - this is two weeks worth of surplus - a pretty sad showing ofr the amount of plants I have..
I guess Christmas is officially cancelled, or at least the traditional giving of salsa. I must admit that I wasn't sure when I was going to find time to do the canning - but I would have made the time if I had gotten a better crop.
My garden is struggling too. Everything planted in the ground is stunted and behind the normal growing schedule (I have a plan to fix that for next year), and even the stuff planted in the drained containers is not producing like it should. We did get our first cantaloupe, and it was wonderfully tasty, but also about 1/2 the size it should have been. We're not getting even half the jalapeno crop as the previous years, only 3 hot wax peppers so far, and NO sweet peppers at all....
Posted by: Ruth | August 25, 2013 at 10:30 AM