Too busy to post!/canning bonanza!

Its the end of the season! and I have had so much to do in my garden and with my garden, I have had no time to post anything!!!!

Its starting to cool off quite a lot, and I have been harvesting like crazy. I have found out that out of my bell peppers I have two plants that are orange, one yellow, and one red. so that’s pretty sweet. We have been making decisions as to what plants we are going to let die off and what we are going to bring inside for the winter. So far we are keeping 2 bell pepper plants, 2 banana pepper plants, and I’m not sure how many jalapenos. thats Matt’s department.

I went canning crazy on sunday. I made 9 pints of salsa! 3 hot, 3 medium and 3 mild. Everything but the vinegar was from my garden! (tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapenos, banana peppers, onion… if anyone wants the canning recipe, let me know! its really tasty salsa!) I also made homemade giardiniera, we had some italian beef the other day and it turned out AWESOME!. Thankfully, I have about 4 pints of that, because my family has all requested a jar, so I am going to have to make more, but its ok, I have PLENTY of peppers. I also pickled a bunch of my banana peppers. Matt made fun of me a lot because I kept saying peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers or I made up my own tongue twister about pickled peppers. In total I have 9 pints of salsa, 4 pints giardiniera, and 4 quarts of pickled peppers. I’m officially addcited to canning. I love it when the lids pop to let you know you did everything right and they are sealed… ahhh, its the simple things in life.