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Monday, Aug. 07, 2006 - 9:05 p.m. This was Thursday's output. The photo shows the 22 pints of medium salsa, 9 pints and 1 quart (unsealed) of pickled sweet beets, 7 pints of peach sauce ( think applesauce, only with peaches. Or peach puree, as in baby food, only much better), and 15 half-pints of peach jam:
I burned a half day vacation to get through all of this produce, and I still wasn't done when Lease came home from work that evening. Yesterday, we were at it again. I finished up the peaches from our front tree (13 half pints of spiced peach jam, plus 6 more pints of peach sauce), 22 pints of (very) mild tomato salsa, 7 pints of dill pickled okra, and 3 pints of mixed peppers (from the jalapeno and banana peppers that my retired coworker Bugs left at my back gate of Friday). Sunday's work actually didn't take as long as I feared it would- right around three hours, start to finish. No photo of Sunday's work- I had them labeled and up in the pantry before I remembered to take a shot. I should be done canning until the next 5 gallon bucket full of tomatoes become ripe later this week. I'm ready for a break.... The war with the tree rats is officially over for the year. They ended up destroying about � of the fruit from the front tree, to go along with the almost complete waste of the back tree�s crop. To top it off, about 1 out of every 4 peaches that I was able to harvest had been infected with codling moth larvae, making the prep work a little more tedious. The fruit that contained one of these tiny (smaller than a grain of rice) worms had a portion of the fruit ruined, making cutting away the bad area a necessity. So the question remains- are these peaches worth all of the warfare and work they required to get any sort of harvest at all. If they didn�t taste so good, I wouldn�t think twice about cutting down the tree and enlarging my vegetable beds. The local farmer�s market always has orchard owners, selling their ripe (bug and tree rat-free) peaches for most of July and August. At $20 a bushel for #2 fruit, the price is right, too. I don�t like to deal with the squirrels every summer. No, I don�t think they are cute and cuddly. I just hate to have to fight them, whether if that means with the live trap or by speeding up their lifespan via another method. I�m going to think long and hard about this issue this fall. I think I might have finally had enough of this war over the peaches�.
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