Yesterday was a busy day. I was up at dawn and out in the garden shortly after 6am. I started off by picking beans and cucumbers before I spend half an hour just watering the garden. The drought that we have is severe and without watering the garden at least every second day, I would not harvest anything this year. The plan was to can the beans and preserve the cucumbers. Speaking to my neighbor she offered me a bucket full of August Apples, so after I prepared the beans and put them in the caner and went over to my neighbors to get apples. Now, as far as I am concerned August apples are the best and make for wonderful apple sauce. So I spend the rest of the morning peeling and cutting apples and making apples sauce. One bag of apples (approx 800g) was just cut and frozen for apple pie or smoothies but the rest was all used for apple sauce, and let me tell you it was delicious.
hello anja,
ReplyDeletegreat harvest of beans. i like beans, canning beans remind of my lovely grandma. oh and apple sauce are another favourite, i make each autumn a lot of apple sauce. we like applesauce with potatoe pancake.
wish you a nice evening,
regina
I love applesauce and potatoes pancakes too, will have this for dinner in fact today and am really looking forward to it
DeleteOh, that's wonderful! One of the reasons I'm trying to have a vegetable garden is to be able to preserve some of the harvest. I must be so great to eat homegrown vegetables in the middle of winter!
ReplyDeleteYes it's great to preserve your own food. We are only really starting to do it this year too (and a bit in fall last year), prior to that when we lived in England we only had a small courtyard and were only able to harvest enough to eat.
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