RE: More harvesting

To tell you the truth I never feel like I'm all that energetic, which is
probably how I managed to overextend myself with the big garden in the
front yard and all. I think, oh well, instead of an hour on Sunday
reading the paper I'll go out and weed. But of course I don't do that.
Then I underestimate the time it takes to do things, like I tell myself
it only takes 20 minutes to process a canner load of beans. It doesn't
of course, it takes an hour and some just to bring the canner up to
pressure and let it cool down later, and I know that, but somehow I
always think there's time to do more. 
We all have our little quirks don't we. 

Cyndi

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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:33 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] More harvesting

I envy your vegetable patch--not to mention your energy.

On Jul 17, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:

> I am coming to the end of the green bean season, seems pretty short to

> me but the plants are not producing many new flowers. Last Saturday I 
> started harvesting at 7:30 am and finished my third canner load at 
> 4:30 pm.  I did 30 jars of green beans and still had a bag left over, 
> but to run another canner load was at least an hour and I was out of 
> enthusiasm for the day. So we're eating a lot of fresh green beans at 
> dinner now, not a bad thing. I should have harvested tomatoes on 
> Sunday, I think I could have done a bunch of jars of just cut-up 
> tomatoes, but after looking at them I decided they could go a while 
> longer and instead did some other chores.
> The soybeans are ready too, in fact it looks like I might have waited 
> a bit long on some of them. I picked a basket full on Sunday and we 
> had edamame last night, where you just boil the whole pod and then 
> squeeze them out of the shell to eat, it was pretty good. I have never

> tried preserving them before so I need to look in my books and see if 
> they have anything, but I think what I'm going to do is boil them in 
> the pods and then freeze them like that. I'll do some tonight and we 
> can see what the texture is like in a couple days. They succeeded 
> remarkably well considering the rabbit damage, I think I might get 20 
> pounds or more from that patch. I might try roasting some too.
> I haven't done anything about my thoughts on the front yard but my 
> husband and I were talking about the teahouse garden, and we both 
> decided the sloping bank of prostrate rosemary is not what we wanted.
> Not prostrate enough, and it just looks messy. So he's pulling that 
> out and now I'm considering maybe clumps of blue fescue. Last year we 
> saw some nice mugo pines at the nursery, I think those can be kept 
> small, and I'll look for some other foliage plants that look like they

> might belong in a Japanese garden but will handle the intense sun and 
> heat on the little slope. If we could get some largish rocks it will
help too.
> I
> know where to get the rocks but lifting them will be a trick.
> On my desk is 5 pounds of zucchini I picked yesterday, I need to go 
> give that away. I haven't exhausted all my contacts in this building 
> yet so I think I'll find some takers.
>
> Cyndi
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