By the Fourth of July, canning is finished here in Northwest Florida. Gardens are dry and crackly and all fruits and veggies have pretty much been harvested and preserved.
A bushel of green beans becomes this.
225 lbs of tomatoes (minus the ones we ate)
turns into jars of canned tomatoes,
chili sauce and tomato juice.
4 dozen ears of corn get shucked
and await canning.
There's little opportunity for more canning this season. I'll make a few more jars of tomato juice, but the time for preparing for the winter months has ended.
The ant prepared while the grasshopper fiddled. Now I can spend a quiet
summer trying to escape the oppressive heat of the Florida panhandle.
Enjoy your summer!
More later.....
