Fall Feast

I haven't posted much about our garden this summer...well probably because I have spent a lot of time there (and not on the computer). We tried new fruits and vegetables this year and have been reaping a great harvest. We have had a cooler summer, but I am still trying to decide if it effected our crops.

Our freezer and shelves are full of strawberry jam (compliment of berries grown in our own yard), green beans, peas, broccoli (a new one for us!), green peppers, salsa, spaghetti sauce, carrots, pears (I bought these), raspberries (the kids seemed to polish those off before I could bring them in the house), and onions. We also had pumpkins (which we will harvest tomorrow) and lots of yellow squash and zucchini.

I am canning our last batch of spaghetti sauce tomorrow. I've been feeling like the little ant in the Ant and Grasshopper parable. Hopefully, we have enough stored in our basement to last a winter!

We had many nights of corn on the cob, green beans and watermelon - a family favorite!

Peachy swiping the raspberries - she is a sneaky one!
We also decided to grow a sunflower. The kids love to go stand by it to see how tall it had grown. Sure enough, it did produce sunflower seeds. Picking all those sunflower seeds out of the flower was a chore!