Almost 50 lbs of summer squash and over 190lbs of winter squash!
61 individual winter squashes and pumpkins. I didn't keep track of how many summer squash I got lol
61 pumpkins and squash from a 10x10 part of my community garden plot!
Spaghetti squash, blue hubbard, jarrahdale, long island cheese, luxury pie, baby bear, kakai, honeynut, acorn, golden Pippin, and sweet meat!
Pulled most of the plants, just leaving the cherries as they still have fruit on them.
This year I canned garden salsa, bruchetta in a jar, and pasta sauce. All together, about 30 lbs went into these jars and twice as much was eaten fresh.
Honorable mention to the apples. That's about 12lbs of apples in sauce form, but we got close to 50lbs total.
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hoodie-raglan
Actually finished this a couple months ago but I immediately took it to work to wear in my freezing office, so didn't get pictures until now.
Used Hobbii Amigo, which i got for 89 cents a skein, so whole thing cost about $7. Surprisingly soft for such cheap acrylic. I mostly use it for amigrumi toys for my son since it's indestructible but gave it a chance with a wearable. Is it fancy? No. But it does the job.
I seem to be unable to follow a pattern without making changes. Lol Sized needles down for a less see through fabric, went up to a large to account for it, added a v neck and ditched the ribbing at the neck, added an extra repeat, and of course, worked in a completely different fiber than suggested. Oh, also changed the raglan a bit to account for the v neck.
Here's the base pattern:
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tolosa
Yarn is Sultan Shadow from Hobbii, got it on sale so it's a $10 shirt. Used about 750 yards.
Coming to the end of the season soon, but for now I'm still completely overloaded. Tell me your favorite recipes!
Ratatouille like the movie, kinda, pictured.
Hey. I'll take it! The person who took best of class/ show entered like 40 things from jelly to bread and everything in between and cleaned up! Good for her, she obviously works really hard at it and it's paid off. I'm just super stoked on my first place.
That's a fancier blue ribbon than I expected. Need to get a shadow box for it!
Due to a recent post, I figured I'd see if there's interest. It would likely be in midtown or a surrounding neighborhood and on a weekend this fall.
A little over 18 lbs. This is just the Gala apples. I've already picked the Gravestein about a month ago. Next up will be the Golden Delicious in a little over a month, then finally the Melrose in about 2 months.
Fresh apples from June to October, with storage, some will last until spring. Most of the ones in the picture will become applesauce.
Tree was planted just over 5 years ago. It's not a big tree. Maybe 6 ft tall and 7 ft wide. I thinned probably 50-75 apples this spring but clearly could have thinned more.
It's really ramping up here in Oak Park. There's also a few lbs of tomatoes frozen for sauce and 4.5lbs of grapes in the fridge!
Haven't attached the labels yet. But these beauties are the selected ones! My state fair has a section exclusively for pomegranate jelly, so I know going in it's gonna be a crowded field.
Ball pomegranate jelly recipe with juice from my parfianka pomegranate bush.
Couch has a stain from a drink spill but a couch cover solves that. Otherwise, pretty good shape for a 5+ year old heavily used couch. Larger ottoman has storage. Both ottomans are in perfect shape.
There's 5 of these unopened. Baby turns out to be allergic to oats.
And almost all my yarn fits. The caron one pound skeins are in a zippered under the bed storage still. OK, and some chenille, and a couple cones of cotton, and some little acrylic skeins, and my current project aren't in there. Oh, and some things in random places. But still, it mostly all fits! 🤣
Wool, mohair, and alpaca top two shelves, then cotton for the next, then linen and cotton one side, acrylic the other, then acrylic the bottom two with a few cotton cones next to the sewing machine.
Two of these chairs and a matching love seat. Could maybe use some new foam, but comfortable enough.
Rawhide dog bones. Accidently bought too many. These things last against our super chewers.
That's ok. There's still a ton more, and these were all ripe enough that they'll cure fine and last a while. They're solidly colored and pass the fingernail test.
That makes 30 winter squash harvested so far.
And removing these few vines open up more space. And it's early enough, I might try for a second round with butternut and long island cheese, which I didn't plant this round.
Seeds sown in early March.
This is the bowl of big tomatoes. Largest is almost 11 oz. Black prince, Roma, Vintage Wine, Sart Roloise, Old German, Rio Grande, and Mortgage Lifter. Still waiting on cuostralee, Gold Medal, Hillbilly, Black Krim, Black from Tula, and Bonny Best. In the cherry bowl is Blush, get stuffed, geranium kiss, 42 day, red centiflor, yellow pear, and isis candy.
These are Aswad, an Iraqi variety and are supposed to get up to 3 lbs each.
I was planning on canning tomato sauce anyway, so not the biggest loss, but still wish I had at least one golden jubilee plant.
Started from seeds from a reliable company. They replaced the pack but it's too late for this season.
Blue Hubbard, I'd estimate closing in on 30lbs. There's, I think, 4 more close to this size and several other smaller ones, plus a bunch of other winter squashes.