Aug 9

Most of the garden is recovering from the wind storm on the 6th. We took a week off from canning beans and gave away everything that was picked this last week. The person that took them was able to freeze 40 quart's worth. We are giving the next week's worth away to someone else.

It looks like we will be starting on corn this coming Friday or Saturday, and we have a lot. We have frozen most of the corn in years past, but I would like to bottle some this year just to have on hand. Frozen corn tastes better than canned, but I would like to have some in storage that does not require electricity to maintain.

I got the last of the potatoes set up using the PC soaker lines. The only thing that is not being watered by drip now is the first and second planting of corn.

The Juab county fair was this last week. Rachel, Katie, and Molly entered produce from both the mega garden and the house garden. Katie and Molly both have their own gardens at the house. We received many blue ribbons. Rachel got a blue ribbon for her homemade whole wheat bread. She got a score of 98 out of 100. It would have been perfect, but she had a small split in the side. The taste was perfect, none better on earth. I should know, I ate a big piece of the winning loaf as I was carrying it out to the car at the end of the fair.

The pea vines are being fed to the goats. We should get another week or two worth of feed from what we have left. I am still watering them to keep them green.