This year we were blessed with our best spaghetti-squash crop yet! We love having this delicious replacement for not only pasta, but also rice and potatoes.
The baking and freezing process is taking weeks.
It takes creativity to get through the hard shells!
Sweet peppers are all harvested and frozen, some of them grilled first for more flavor.
I sauteed the last Rapunzel cherry-tomatoes for a meal just today!
Happy carrot crop!
The soil blend in Dad's raised beds makes harvest so simple.
Even the 18 inch long carrots were easy to pull.
...as were the monstrous, knobby and leggy carrots.
It doesn't take many of our huge carrots or onions to get three cups of each chopped up for tonight's Autumn Soup!
We even grow our own celery, which, being stronger than store-bought, doesn't require as much as the recipe calls for.
The fall planting of lettuce and spinach is still growing under plastic with the help of insulation and blankets each freezing night. Fresh garden salads in October... a blessing!
The bountiful Roma tomato crop is mostly frozen or made into soups which we have already enjoyed.
Several grew in such a way that we had a cute "family" of tomatoes!
Zucchini is also shredded and in the freezer for a variety of uses.
We pow the fields, and scatter
The good seed on the land,
But it is fed and watered
By God's almighty hand;
He sends the snow in winter,
The warmth to swell the grain,
The breezes and the sunshine,
And soft refreshing rain.
All good gifts around us
Are sent from heav'n above;
Then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord
For all His love.
Matthias Claudius, 1782
Trans. by Jane M. Campbell, 1861
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