This is an easy answer. In July I start a very pro active back stocking for winter regime. I take advantage of my home grown vegetables as well as some of the best priced produce of summer, farmer markets and even big chain markets.
An example of this is that I scored 20 lbs of russet potatoes for $4 last Sunday morning. I could not pass that up. Unfortunately for me mother nature is having a hot flash this week. Canning is hot sweaty work never mind adding in hot weather. I long for a summer kitchen.
So this Kentucky woman got up at 4am to prep the kitchen, then prep the potatoes, then cook and pressure can them. Feel for me, I had to peel 20# of potatoes :)
After pressure canning. 7 quarts of diced and quartered potatoes.
To add to that I picked, sorted and weighed my garden tomatoes. I have 15# of them and that is going to be tomorrow's project. I need to go get more lids. I do not want to keep my kitchen in a state of "hot and steamy", trust me it is not sexy in anyway :) Will cut them up, cook them down and run them through the food mill and then they are going to reduce in the crock pot. Believe it or not 15# will only net me about 6 pints. Not a lot but I know where it came from.
Then it was time to play with the plants. I "saved" several herb plants last weekend at the farmers market. Poor root bound plants dying in their little containers.
This one has Basil, Sage and Rosemary.
And then I have added 2 more rescue plants to the household. One of the office managers is leaving and gave them to me. A Dracaena and a Peace Lilly.
The Peace Lilly gets no photo spot, she is embarrassed because she has no leaves. She does now have a new pot and soil. We will let her grow a bit before we show her off.
