Garden Update

Tomatoes are doing fine. I did find a few Japanese beetles on the tomatoes today.  Have never had that happen before...supposedly they don't like tomatoes.

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I only plant cabbage every other or every third year to make sauerkraut. Looks like a good year for kraut:)  Not too many bugs and that's with no powders or sprays.

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Had my first picking of beets this week. Good sized for canning and for making pickled beets.

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Lots of cucumbers! Cucumbers are another crop that I rotate. I make my grandmother's bread and butter pickles and dill pickles. This year I am going to make sweet pickles as well.

Pickles are good for you in that they aid digestion.

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Picked my first handful of pole beans today.  By next week I'll have too many to use.  And then the canning will really start!

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Peppers are ready before the tomatoes this year...odd for my garden.

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