VEGGIE WARNING CONTINUED!

OKAY! MY MOM WAS READING A BOOK CALLED, PUTTING FOOD BY, AND SHE STUMBLED UPON SOMETHING THAT CAUSED HER TO FAINT. WELL NOT REALLY, BUT IT WAS INTERESTING AND SCARY!!

VEGGIES AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW HAVE NO ACID IN THEM (FRUITS DO) SO WHEN YOU CAN THE USING THE WATER BATH METHOD SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS!!! WHAT YOU ASK! WELL! THE WATER GETS HOT (BOILING), BUT NOT HOT ENOUGH! INSTEAD OF KILLING THE ENZYMES IT SENDS THEM INTO A STATE OF SHOCK! THIS IN TURN CAUSES THEM TO MAKE LITTLE POCKETS OF POISON!! THEN WHEN YOU EAT YOUR VEGGIES YOU DIE! I AM NOT KIDDING! ONE LITTLE LITTLE BIT OF THE POISEN CAN KILL HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE!!

MORE LATER...

WARNING POST COMING!!!

WE KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR VEGGIES!!! IF YOU ARE CANNING YOUR VEGETABLES WITH A WATER BATH WE KNOW SOMETHING BAD!!! I AM BUSY RIGHT NOW, BUT WAIT UNTIL I GET A CHANCE!!! THEY ARE DANGEROUS!!

Garden post

Well I was planning to go out and photograph our garden today, but the rain came in and put stop to that idea!!! Our garden however is doing really well! Our okra and tomatoes right now are the strongest, but everything else is doing well! Okra loves the heat so it has taken off! This is our first year to have eggplant and cantaloupe in our garden. The years before this we have always tried but never succeeded! However this year both of those plants are doing really well. We have already eaten quite a few melons and the eggplant is coming in! We have learned quite a few facts on cantaloupe. Here is one... All the books we have read say to harvest your watermelon when it falls off the vine. However we have found to harvest it just before it falls off. This is a little risky because you can't be sure, but over all the fruit will taste ten times better!!!

A use for milk jugs!

Okay all you money saving guys out there! Here is a great way to save money!

When you use a milk jug... rinse it out, punch ONE SMALL hole in the bottom, bury it to the top beside your plants, and than fill. We water our garden and then fill the jugs once a day. This is great for your peppers, watermelon, and tomatoes because they need slow constant water!

Our Garden Update!!! - Part Two

Wheat from our backyard. It really is wheat! And we really can eat it. And we really don't know where it came from!

Our bulbs we had to dig up to make room for the strawberries!

One giant sunflower.

Our Rudbeckia garden. It is so beautiful in the fall when it blooms.

Note: The tilled land in the photo above is our neighbor's garden!

Zinnias

Little Zinnias

A long row of flowers ready to burst into bloom.

My (Jessica) herb garden-off to a rocky start, but doing OK now.

More herbs

Onions - soon to be through

Erin's sweet "taters" and "normal taters"

Bean plant and bean pod

 Tomatoes...

And more tomatoes!

Here is the rest of our garden in photos. It is having a hard time right now in the heat, but it's trying! It is a lot of fun to go out in our yard and see all the little plants growing up. Very exciting! We have two banana peppers, cucumbers, and squash. We also have zinnias and bush beans.