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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Well, all year is canning season around here.  Our garden isn't up to 
supplying everything yet, so I hit the organic and natural food stores 
whenever I'm in "the big city" and look for sales.  I also can meatballs and 
other meats for easy, fast dinners, so whenever I find a good sale, out 
comes the canner.

Even with the strawberries learning to do the backstroke, I have just about 
enough in the freezer now to make up my first batch of strawberry jam.

Lynda
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>

> Wow...canning season? We just had our last frost last week. The only thing
> I'm harvesting is greens. Except for a few early Stupice (golf-ball sized 
> at
> the moment), it will be a month or more before I see a tomato. Everything 
> is
> sitting, waiting for warmer weather, especially squash, which isn't 
> looking
> very happy. The early green beans that I started in cell packs in early
> April are just starting to bloom. Pole beans have just come through the
> ground. Onions are doing well, but not forming bulbs yet. Garlic doesn't
> care about the weather and looks great. Peas are just forming pods. 
> Potatoes
> are still getting hilled...weeks away from blooming. Corn is an inch or 
> two
> tall. I've still got a bunch of tomatoes to get planted, if it would stop
> raining long enough to prepare the bed.
>
> I have a lot of pears amd a few peachs. It looks like the apples ALL got 
> hit
> by the late frost...four apple trees, lots of blossoms, and , for the 
> second
> year in a row, no fruit.
>
> Today's project is to set up a bumch of pots with good soil to start the
> strawberry runners so I can force them in the greenhouse next spring.