Monthly Archives: August 2013

Starting the clean-up

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

We are just about finished the canning and now it is time to start cleaning up the gardens.  Today we had a watermelon.  Ten days ago we took one of the watermelons we thought was ready but it wasn’t quite.  … Continue reading →

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Greetings from the Petts Canning Factory!!

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

This has been a busy week, picking vegetables and fruit and canning or freezing them.  Sunday we started with a few of the grapes.  We made 8 jars of grape jelly.  I do those first because I need at least … Continue reading →

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Things are looking up!

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

Today we went down to Dunlap and got 75 pounds of canning tomatoes and a bushel of green beans.  We got 7 quarts (one load) of the beans canned and the rest of them all cut up and ready to … Continue reading →

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A Farmer’s Life is for the Birds!

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

The day after I last posted my update, the deer got into my garden and wiped out seven 25 foot rows of green beans.  After I stopped crying I vowed to sell the farm and move but with Joe and … Continue reading →

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