I can't believe it has been nearly a month since I wrote here last.
I have been busy canning and getting the boys off to college. I have canned about 4 cases of peaches and given as much more away to family. So far I have put up 2 cases of salsa a case of spaghetti sauce, and a few bottles of ketchup.

Here is my biggest watermelon so far at 30 lbs.

Emily's melon

Five different chilies

Peaches

Two of my bush type cucumbers are putting on like crazy and my peaches are starting to get ripe, forcing me to ease into canning mode. I have put up 14 pints of sweet relish and six quarts of peaches.

Cucumbers

Anaheim, Banana, and Poblano Chilies

My banana chilies continue to be productive and I just harvested my first batch of poblanos (a large meaty chili) which turned out great as rellenos.The rest I roasted and froze. I have also frozen a couple gallon bags of chopped chilies and eaten a fare amount of banana chilies stuffed with cream cheese. My wife and daughter love these because they don't have heat.







My corn patch is small this year, but we are eating it several times a week. Of  course the squash and tomatoes are still producing. My new food mill should be here Wednesday. Then I can start doing something with the tomatoes. I plan ketchup, spaghetti sauce, and salsa among other things.

The watermelons continue to grow. They are getting long but not too big around yet.

Anybody need any dill seed? I think I will have a gallon when I am done and all my dill came up volunteer so I don't need it for seed. How many quarts of pickles will a gallon of dill make?