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The veggies are coming

Posted on June 7, 2019 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

The motto of Organic Gardening Magazine is ” I didn’t know I couldn’t grow that until after I had three successful crops.” . I felt that way when everyone told me to save my time and not try to plant … Continue reading →

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More Tomatoes

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

Went to the Easy Street Farm Store Market again on Wednesday and got two boxes of the Roma plum tomatoes.  This morning we are processing one box.  These are first run tomatoes, nothing like the canning tomatoes we are used … Continue reading →

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Finished the Tomatoes

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

Started at 5:30 today and finally got to sit down and put my feet up at 3 p.m.  While Norman was out for his walk I cut up the onions, garlic and celery and measure the herbs.  Right after breakfast … Continue reading →

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Another perfect day in Paradise

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

We had a cold front come through last night so it was in the 40’s this morning but as soon as the sun came out it warmed up beautifully.  All the cold front did was push out all the humidity … Continue reading →

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Playing with the Big Boys

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

The grapes are all done now and Norman has cleansed up under the grapes.  I have always looked at the grapes from right in the grapes or from down hill and looked at other vineyards  from the road but yesterday … Continue reading →

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Always Busy

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

Busy all morning doing nothing again.  Norman settled down after dinner and just before he fell asleep he said,” It seems as if we are always busy, even when there was nothing to do!”  And he was right again. Today … Continue reading →

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And Now Back to Pickles

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

Yesterday we got a late start on the tomatoes because at the end of breakfast we lost power.  That meant we could not blanch the tomatoes.  We waited for an hour and a half until the power was restored, then … Continue reading →

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End of a Long Day!

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

Tomato canning is always a long day!  I started at 5 a.m. by chopping three pounds of onions and two garlics (all cloves) three cups of celery and measuring out the herbs and spices to make the marinara spaghetti sauce. … Continue reading →

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Canning Speghetti

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

We got 100 pounds of tomatoes yesterday and got 50 pounds of them canned today.  Will do the rest tomorrow.  The 25 pound boxes were $10 this year, they will go down to $8 later in the summer when the … 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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