No Excuses

  I've been neglecting my blog for almost 2 months. It's true, I've been busy with my garden, canning and freezing this year's harvest, but that's not an excuse. That's why I planted a garden and that's a lot of what this blog is about, my daily experiences. So here I sit, at my computer, telling you what's happening in my life today in central New York.
  I can't work in the garden today because it's raining, so it's time to get caught up on other things, like housework. I'm doing laundry and making tomato sauce for supper. Actually I'm making zucchini Parmesan with the sauce. The tomatoes are still ripening and the squash are still  producing. The beans are done but what a crop they made. I have 8 gallon bags full of beans in the freezer plus we have had several meals with beans this summer. I sold some and I gave some away to friends. 2012 was a good year for beans. The fall peas are starting to pod and the fall beets are doing well. The garden of 2012 isn't done yet.
  This spring I bought 25 strawberry plants. I planted them in a poor location so I've been transplanting them. I'm up to 64 plants and still have more to go. I'm looking forward to the 2013 strawberry crop. I also bought a Doyle's blackberry plant that is supposed to produce up to 30 gallons of berries. Mr Doyle told me that I might not see 30 gallons a year, but if I followed his instructions, I would get over 20 gallons for sure. Time will tell.

  My latest project for the garden is building a greenhouse using my old 10'x20' tent frame and covering it with 6mil plastic. Once that is done, it will be time to build a tow behind the tractor roto-tiller. I bought an old tiller that has a bad motor. Now I'm building a drive system like the PTO on farm tractors so I can hook it behind and run it off the tractors motor. Finding affordable parts is the challenge, but I will keep looking. As I make progress on my projects, I will get pictures to include to show what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. The why of the project may be a mystery to some but to me it's simple, it will be fun to do.