Monday, And Suddenly Strawberries!

The news as to weather has been pretty constant all day:  expect storms, rain, more storms, heavy rain, some rain, maybe some bad storms, for the next 4 days.  I had eaten well over a pound of strawberries out of the garden on Father’s Day morning, but there had been quite a few on the verge of ripening, so when I got home from work, I enlisted all my girls to help me pick all the ripe berries out of the garden so they would not rot in the rain we are supposed to start getting tonight.When we had that done, I picked the sugar snap peas clean.  Weather is supposed to stay no higher than the mid 70s for the next 10 days, so they should keep producing.  The peas, a half dozen large garlic scapes, garlic chives, and 8 cloves of last year’s garlic all went with venison, stir fried with chilis, honey, molasses, ginger, and chili oil over egg noodles.

While the noodles were finishing I ducked out front quick because I thought I had seen a tomato in the front garden.  No disappointment there.  A cluster of tiny tomatoes on one of my Sasha’s Altai.  <smile> not likely to be ripened by the end of June, but maybe by the 4th of July we will finally start eating real tomatoes again.

After dinner I processed all of the strawberries that made it into the house, into puree for making jelly later.  Processed down I ended up with a bit more than 4 quarts.  Not too bad.  That is a couple good sized batches of jelly.   Too late tonight to get started on that.  Good rainy day on a weekend project.  Need to get rhubarb again too, but that holds on the plant better than strawberries do.

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