Garden & Canning

I've finally developed a green thumb this year and have the best garden I've ever grown. 

 My tomato plants are taller than I am. 

Although Amelia keeps picking green tomatoes for me I don't think that I'm going to run short any time soon.

 Here is the cucumber patch.  I've made so many pickles and pickle relish that I've started giving away bags of cucumbers.  I'm ready for them to quit producing. 

 Here is the whole new section that we planted this year.  The front of the picture is a zucchini plant while the right side are squash and grapes. 

Here is a nice looking spaghetti squash.  My packet of seeds was a variety pack.  What are the chances of three out of four plants being spaghetti squash?  We've never tried spaghetti squash before so hopefully we like it.  Next year I'm not taking my chances with the variety seed packet.

Here are the pepper plants.  Most of them are banana peppers.  I have one bell pepper, one Anaheim,  and I think two cayennes.  I've been able to pick handfuls of peppers but not too many yet. 

 My zucchini plant leaves were so huge and crazy that I missed this zucchini until it too was massive.  Now I check the plant more frequently. 

 This is a typical harvest for a week, although this week I picked this much twice. 

 And here is my canning bounty so far.  Sweet and sour pickles and a double batch of sweet pickle relish.

 Tomato jam, bread and butter pickles, sweet pickles.

 Dill pickles.

 Tomato sauce.

 I got two cases of peaches from the St. Peter Food Co-op.  So I turned some of that into peaches in a honey water syrup and vanilla bean peach sauce.  I also had to do another round of pickle relish because I was sick of looking at all of the cucumbers on the counter. 

 I then took the skins and pits of the peaches to make peach pit jelly.
 

Another round of tomato sauce and applesauce made from apples we got from my cousin. 

Peach nectarine jam and different recipe of dill pickles.