Stock

Used the turkey carcasses and bones and pressure canned stock...3 batches in the pressure canner so almost 2 dozen pints

Canning

last week I thought I did well by finishing the orange marmalade that Stan started. Came up with about 9 1/2 pints of jam.

At farmers market this week, there was so much leftover.  I brought home 2 gray bins that were half full of cherries, 3 bags of strawberries, 1 full of peaches and some other odds and ends like a handfull of apricots, nectarines, yellow cherries, plums and such.  I think my eyes were bigger than my head...

so i planned when i got home yesterday...reading recipies and such - put them in one note and got started cleaning fruit when stan got home.

Cleaned strawberries and 1/2 of the cherries last night the rest today...zbout 1/2 of the white peaches went to compost..to soft and tasteless

made...
1 batch strawberry jam with low sugar pectin - 8 - 1/2 pints
1 batch strawberry jam with cherries - needed to add pectin - 7 - 1/2 pints, 1pint
1 batch strawberry jam with cherries and balsamic - kind of loose - canned this morning - 3 pints and a 1/2 pint

today...
1 batch cherry amaretto jam - 8 - 1/2 pints
1 batch peach orange marmalade - 7 - 1/2 pints
4 pints peach salsa
1 batch cherry jam with low sugar pectin - 8 - 1/2 pints
1 large batch cherry pie filling - 5 quarts, 5 pints

still have some peaches that aare underripe, plums and assorted other ruit and 1 baatch strawberry and sugar

I cant believe I did it all!!

Eggs...

2014 2015.  2016

Jan 0 14.         0

feb 43 42.   

mar 23 27

apr 25 40

may 28 41

june 20 19

july 31 22

aug 22 1

sept 15 5

oct 9 13

nov 0 20

dec 0 4

start 1/19/2015    2/14/16

end 12/xx/15

Beans and peppers

bean seeds with inoculant bought at lowes. Jalapeño and anaheim pepper plants in. A batch of corn too. Leftover seeds

Cucumbers

planted 3 hills in the long box nearest the potting bench...started to do the beans but couldn't find the staplegun

Used bush pickling

Tomato plants in

had to before we left for disneyland...had to get it in the ground with the drip system

Planted 3 Isis candy and 3 chocolate cherry in 1 box
5 Amish paste and 5 san marazanos in 2 long boxes
3 Japanese... In the bucket system. Box is waiting for 3 more pineapple heirloom

Lemon juice

Froze 11 containers of Meyer lemon juice with my new juicer. I think 6 pints and 5 1/2 pints

Seed starting

planted 2 flats of tomato seeds, chives and blue borage. Cleaned up the herbs and flowers

First egg

Found today in the coop