September Week 2 Garden Video Tour 2013

dehydrating our many tomatoes and catnip
As I said in my last post we are in the middle of a kitchen renovation so I've been pretty busy. Tomatoes have been We have been harvesting about 17 lbs a week lately and I have been having to take breaks from our kitchen renovation to dehydrate tomatoes and cook down tomato sauce into a tomato concentrate (takes up less space and is less likely to spoil). Our green beans have slowed down now, they were producing crazy before we were giving them out to everyone we know. Ironically we had problems getting them to grow in the spring so I had to replant several times. Next year we plan to plant half as many beans and plant more cucumbers instead. The leaves on both our cucumbers and beans are starting to turn brown and die now, but are still producing.

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