Can-tastic

 I have gotten really into canning this year! So far, I have made dill pickles, pickled beans, pickled beets, pickled basil carrots, salsa, relish, oven-dried tomatoes, smoked paprika, roasted tomato sauce, regular tomato sauce, canned peaches & pears & a whole lot of pesto!! I am hoping to make my own ketchup, and because I still have lots of paste tomatoes sitting on my counter, something else creative with tomatoes?? Suggestions?

 Snap shot of my pantry last week

& a wider show also showing pesto (that is stored in my freezer!) 

 Beautiful pickled basil carrots

 I already posted these photos of pickles in mid-prep, and final product with ingredients, but thought i would add them again

 Tomato paste, juice and oven-dried cherries!!

 another pantry shot, as of Oct. 6th, have to start piling things on top shelf now!  

Photos for new cherry tomato varieties (or packs that needed new photos!)

 Black Cherry in all there glory! 

 Sweet Angora. Beautiful. Red & Perfectly round cherry

 Cherry Roma - Keep for a long time & are great for roasting or oven-dried tomatoes

 Red Fig - Kinda like a yellow pear, but red! 

 Hartman's GooseBerry! 

 Isis Candy on a beautiful purse from ChaCha - can't decide what photo I like best. Suggestions? 

so many tomatoes

 I picked five bushels of tomatoes this week! and they are taking over my living room

 Tomatoes & Peppers drying in a smoker. just one of the many ways I have been preserving the fruitful harvest! 

Mmm. homemade paprika. Those are my alma paprika peppers on the second shelf from the bottom. soon to be dried, then ground up . . . 

Cosmic Purple Carrots!

 My first harvest of cosmic purple carrots from my community garden. gorgeous! 

 The lovely work of Peggy-Gene Baillie in presenting the carrots & other garden goodies

i love the things that tomatoes make

 oven dried tomatoes coming fresh out of the oven, and on a pretty plate

 tomato juice, tomato paste & oven-dried tomatoes

Table of Tomatoes!

 wow, do i ever have a lot of tomatoes! belieive it or not, I took these photos last week, and just picked twice as many! 

Harvest!!!

Time to Preserve

 Making oven roasted tomatoes! 

 

 Making pickles!!

Free Seed Saving Workshop in Ptbo

Will be doing a FREE workshop on Seed Saving 3pm this Saturday at the Peterborough Folk Fest! http://ptbofolkfest.com/
 Come down to learn more about the importance of, and techniques for seed saving!

My laboratory

 The tomatoes, before I cut & squeeze out their seeds

 Pretty jars filled with all the beautiful colours of tomatoes coming out my garden, they are not so pretty in a few days when they are fermenting!