Red and Gold Canned Jewels
Aug. 18th, 2010 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Did my first bit of canning in a couple years last night. Took a mess of red and yellow tomatoes from my garden, blanched them, and canned them up in hopes of future from-my-garden batches of salsa. One quart red, one quart yellow. Had forgotten that after all the tedious bits were done, the instructions concluded "boil 85 minutes." Had I realized that, I might've started an hour and a half earlier.... This weekend, if car buying permits, I'm planning to strip the lemon tree and do up lemon curd and other such yummy things.
I also had the fun of cutting back my one actively blooming rosebush (*$#%^&@% prickles--!) and saved its sole remaining tiny rose, which as of this morning was unfurling its petals in a vase in the kitchen window. Looking around the backyard, there is so much work I've let slide and need to catch up on. Tonight: cutting back the demon bougainvilla's newest respawning attempt, and trimming tree branches to "I can walk under them without hitting my head" height.
I also had the fun of cutting back my one actively blooming rosebush (*$#%^&@% prickles--!) and saved its sole remaining tiny rose, which as of this morning was unfurling its petals in a vase in the kitchen window. Looking around the backyard, there is so much work I've let slide and need to catch up on. Tonight: cutting back the demon bougainvilla's newest respawning attempt, and trimming tree branches to "I can walk under them without hitting my head" height.
