Making Elderberry jelly
Weather was kind of uncooperative this weekend so I decided to do some work indoors. I grabbed 2 gallon bags of frozen elderberries from the freezer to get ready to make some jelly! I used the old standard recipe and made 2 batches. The first batch made 12 half-pints and the second made 11 (although I canned one pint and 9 half-pints because I didn't have enough jars!). Good stuff.
Old potatoes
I checked out the old potatoes downstairs and was not pleased. They are not keep too well! I gathered a couple handfuls up and made some fried potatoes. I will have to go through them and see if maybe I should can some of them.
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| They fried up nice! |
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| Funny how much more yellow they look because of the purple ones in there! |
Tree cages and trimming new trees
I worked on putting more cages up on the new trees. I used the remaining of one of the old rolls of fencing and another whole roll of the 3 ft fencing. I got the new apples mostly done (all but one I think) and some of the new cherry trees. I can't remember if I did the walnuts earlier or just this past weekend. Its all turning into a blur!
No pictures of the cages, not terribly exciting and I forgot!
Trimming
I got around to doing some yard trimming and trimming around the old blueberries. After trimming the blueberries I cleared around the base of the plants. There are quite a few struggling to survive - maybe 2-3 dead. I am thinking it might be worthwhile to put some blood meal on them to see if that helps.
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| I actually took this picture the weekend after I trimmed around these. |
Auger Stand
I also started work building a stand for the auger/post hole digger. I got the base done. I made it out of old locust fence posts. I will try to use only locust for the project, but not sure I have enough of suitable size and quality.
