T-minus 7 minutes till I dip my homegrown tomato pasta sauce into hot sterilized jars. I'm a little Italian, but mostly Country. Our Spring/Summer garden has been plentiful this year. Our first time planting potatoes yielded 100 +/-lbs. That made us happy! We've been successful with our squash and okra, as usual. But also, for the first time we have tons of half white runner beans! I have canned and canned. Wild animals (rabbits, deer) have eaten our bean plants for 2 consecutive years. And apparently we've never had green enough thumbs to do any good at growing tomatoes...until this year! I have canned salsa, and now soon to be pasta sauce. Old timers say you should work in your garden every day to have high yielding produce, and that must be where the term green thumb came into play. See, I don't go to the garden every day, but most days if I spend any amount of time out there, I come in with green thumbs, and fingers...from plucking and weeding.
Love,
Cristy Gloveless ;)
