Yesterday, I sat in the garage loading sliced and peeled apples into jars, and admitted to my Mister, that canning apples (and grape juice) made it finally feel like fall.
If it snows, that means the garden will freeze soon, and there won't be any more fresh tomatoes. I like fall, with the leaves changing color, and the garden in full swing. I like eating squash. I don't really like winter. The only redeeming thing about winter is playing in freshly fallen snow, and drinking tea or hot chocolate by a fire. I'd be good if winter was condensed a bit and we had a week around christmas time where it snowed, and no one had to go to work or school, and we could play and wrap up in blankets around the fire. Then it could be spring again and I could start a new garden.
Since gardening is my main hobby, winter gets a little old fast. This year to get me through, I'm planning on bringing a cherry tomato plant indoors and see how long I can keep it going, as well as a couple of regular tomato plants we have growing in the green house already. We'll also do indoor lettuce again, they were a little leggy last year, but it was fun to have fresh home grown lettuce in december.


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Thanks. I had grapes at our last house and am trying to establish vines at the new one now.
Thanks.
Actually the house dates from 1890.
How many quarts of juice did you get this year? Or did you run out of bottles before you ran out of grapes?
I think we did 15 or 16 gallons of juice. (we meaning mostly Kyle- Baby E wants to be held all the time so it's hard to be very helpful.)
There are a few feet left of unpicked vines. We still have jars, but I'm not sure if we'll do anymore.
We did 20 quarts of pie apples on saturday. We didn't do applesauce, we were too tired.
(I also shredded the giant zucchini that the neighbor gave us and put it in the freezer for zucchini breads/cakes.)
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