Good morning! Summer is peak preserving time. It feels like every day there is something that needs to be processed and preserved, because there is. This week I've been busy with tomatoes. Lots of tomatoes. I am over the moon excited because this is the best year for tomatoes in ages. The bushes are just full, and still flowering and producing. And I am not wasting a one. Of course we are eating them fresh, but there are enough to make relish and salsa and passata. On Monday I made tomato relish and zucchini pickle, before the weather turned to searing heat. All our meals were made using ingredients in the pantry. I'm trying to use up what's in one of the freezers, so the meal plan is a guide and our meals have been slightly different to the plan. They've been good though! Then on Wednesday it all ground to a halt. On and off over the last couple of weeks I've had vertigo. Since last Wednesday the head spins and nausea have just about brought me to a halt so there has been no crocheting, sewing, knitting or preserving done.
Everything has just kept rolling on though. That's the beauty of a routine, even for household chores. Washing has been done. Meals prepared. Bathrooms cleaned. Floors swept and washed. Even the shopping was done. Everyone knows what has to be done when, and just gets on with it. This week, vertigo and weather permitting, the plan is to get the cucumbers and tiny tomatoes pulled out, and those beds turned over and compost added to them, ready for planting in a couple of weeks. What did you make, bake, sew and grow last week?
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Evelyn Silk
26/2/2024 02:46:53 pm
Not good about the vertigo Cath. take care. You have had a great crop of tomatoes. Not a lot here unfortunately. Plenty of zucchinis, enough for us, the neighbors and the free food lane. They disappear before we have left the area.
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Cath Armstrong
26/2/2024 06:26:45 pm
Gotta love those zucchini plants that just keep on giving, I'm sure your neighbours and whoever collects them from the food lane are grateful.
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Cheryl
26/2/2024 03:56:26 pm
Sorry to hear of your vertigo, it must be an awful thing to suffer from. I’ve had a horrid year for tomatoes in the northern rivers of NSW! Last year I picked 14kg, this year I will be lucky to pick 4! It just seems to go that way sometimes.
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Cath Armstrong
26/2/2024 06:25:17 pm
It seems to go like that. This is the best year we've had in 5 or 6. Last year was barely enough to keep us in salads, with just enough for one batch of relish. I am sure these plants have just thrived on neglect. The weather has been dreadful, and that doesn't help either. Thank goodness we can save some seed and try again next year.
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Cath Armstrong
26/2/2024 06:28:12 pm
Thank you. Every little bit helps, even if it's done slowly.
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