The Rewards

Gardening is beginning to have its rewards. I haven't become completely self sustainable yet, but i have learned so much this year that I feel that that goal is attainable. Today we will go to my sister Tiffany's house and help her get a garden (of hot weather crops) going, assuming the weather dries up outside.

June 12th was a big harvest day at The Hilltop Plot. Refer to the last post for my love of Beets. Bull's Blood and Chioggia- the golden ones didn't fare well yet...


We are proud of our carrots. We're gonna plant 10 times as many in the fall though?



The garlic plants all had scapes, so we cut em off and now wait impatiently for the bulbs!


Yesterday we went strawberry picking! We got enough to make 112 oz. of jam and ricemilk icecream, and we froze about four quarts!

This is what 21 lbs. of strawberrys looks like:


I hulled almost all of them:

MMM...The results:


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