Team Christensen

We froze salsa, green beans, squash, zucchini, and applesauce. This is my first time having a garden as I have mentioned before. It was great. We still have to wait for the corn and tomatoes for Spaghetti sauce, and fresh corn on the cob. Wade is so good at the gardening thing. He would come home after working 14 hour days to putter in the garden. NO THANK YOU!! I told him, you plant, tend and weed and I will Harvest and put away. I do not like to get my hands dirty. I can thank 7 years in the Dental office for that. It was really fun though. Everybody pitched in and now we have some fun things in our freezer. The apples came from our neighbors backyard. They just let the tree go, and I guess you could say I stole the apples. My cousin came over from Monroe and his long arms got all the apples that weren't wormified or rotten :). They made an excellent applesauce. I read a ton of recipes that said not to use sour apples. SO NOT TRUE. A little brown sugar and cinnamon and we were ready to go! We only got about a dozen strawberries, but hopefully next year it will be great. The difference between store bought strawberries and homegrown is amazing!!! Can't wait to taste the corn. Our neighbor had to come over and tell me that I needed to pick the squash. I didn't know it wasn't supposed to get to be the size of my leg! I just figured the bigger the better. Now I know. With a little patience, some knowledge, Farmer Wade and my new best friend Gardening Gloves, we have had a great Harvest. Now, what to do with 65 cucumbers???? Pickles anyone??