A Little More Canning

 We've some how acquired lots, pounds, tons of tomatoes so I found a recipe for tomato basil sauce which sounds really good.  Time consuming prep so it better be good!

 

Andy and Lizzie sent me some heirloom cherry tomatoes.  'they are a little larger that regular cherry tomatoes and so delicious!  I check on Pinterest about saving the seeds.  We are in the fermenting stage right now.

Flowers In August Surviving

 

The bottle tree is being covered with morning glories.

I finally saw a bloom on the trumpet vine.  We have wondered why it has never bloomed in all the years that we have had it.  Mark keeps saying it is because it doesn't get enough sun.  Nope I figured it out...the deer love them!  Look at all the naked stems where they ate the other blooms. Stupid  deer!

 

I was surprised to see the beauty berry bush so early.  Guess the deer don't care for beauty berries.

This is actually a house plant.  But it needs sun so I let it take a little breather outside once in awhile.  I think it is called a bromeliad.  And the basket was made from grapevine.  The Ellison's found it in Asheville, NC.

My Small Canning Shelf

 

Add five pints of really good hot salsa to the list of our accomplishments this summer.  We have already eaten one quart jar from the first batch and a pint from the last.  They both are equally as good.  Emmy even said the okra was good.

The Big Harvest

We are starting to see our labor paying off.  I have picked beans two or three times, peppers once, and there are okra on each stalk.  Today Doodles picked some cherry tomatoes.  And I think she has eaten all of them already.  And finally there are cucumbers coming on!

Mystery Vine

This is what we found after coming home from vacation.

I'm thinking it might be a pumpkin.  Or it might be a yellow squash of some kind.  Guess we will just have to wait and see. Thank you birds or squirrels for planting the seed.