Gratuitous picture of my flower bed.
Because.... it's beautiful and I love it.
It's jam packed with pollinators!
I pulled the cherry tomatoes out of the
freeze dryer this morning.
They were done last night, but it
was sprinkling and I have to carry them
across the yard from the garage into
the house.
Wet doesn't go with freeze DRY very well.....
So I put another 10 hours on them.
They were nice and dry this morning.
But the vinegar made them a little sticky.
And the mozzarella pearls were a bust.
They were little rocks.
With almost NO flavor.
So we'll add some water and rehydrate
them a bit and use them on salads.
Meanwhile I bagged up 19 bags of the little
tomatoes for this week's market.
They look pretty and taste good and
with a desiccant in the bag they will
stay nice and crisp.
Then we figured out how to sell some of the
fresh cherry tomatoes. We picked them separate,
so we can sell yellows or reds (and have a couple
that are mixed...)
I have some pint deli tubs.
We will display them in those, but then when you
buy them, we have some paper lunch bags to
dump them into.
We have thirteen freeze dried products now!
So we might need to retire some and just have a
different variety from week to week.
We bought a new 8 foot table and it's FULL.
But it looks nice...
Rod picked up a new 10x10 easy-up canopy
and it comes with a wall, so that will really help.
I'll have him take a picture.
I won't be there, it's my weekend to teach.
Let's see....
then after that we headed to our little town
grocery store and checked the price of their
cherry tomatoes. $4.19/pint.
So we will price ours at $4/pint.
While we were there, we grabbed a frozen
pizza (on sale) and a couple tubs of ice cream
(also on sale) and some stuffed mushrooms.
Never on sale, but AMAZING.
(They make them there in the store and they
are SOOOOO good!)
Home to have some lunch.
Then I pulled all the pea plants and Rod took one
of the cattle panels down. (The other one has
sweet potatoes growing on it)
And planted 7 Roma tomato plants we had
started up at the farm in Kyle's shed.
Also the no-heat-jalapenos and purple peppers
I started on my windowsill.
We'll see if they do anything in my raised bed.
There's also red potatoes growing in that bed.
They're still too small to harvest.
Then did a bunch of paperwork and reading for
tonight's RS Pres meeting (we just finished)
and played for a few minutes with the new
AI Indexing.
It's FUN!
Just as mindless as playing a game on your phone,
but you are HELPING instead of just killing time.
Anyhow.
Now I'm going to head back outside and check
on Rod and look for eggs. The girls are waiting
and laying later in the evening when it's cooler.
(But they are also eating eggs most days, so I
have to check regularly all day long...)
Grrrrrrrrrrr.
Kyle is at the farm.
Rod drove out there to drop off the trailer and
the two IBC totes he bought yesterday.
(We need one for the water on the new egg wagon,
and I think we are going to cut into the other one
and make a dog house for Luna to stay in out
at the farm... Kyle was going to build her a dog house,
but this is water proof and light weight and easy to move.)
Anyhow.
It's been a mish-mash sort of day.
We were going to head back out this morning and
finish the weeding, but we got a good rainstorm
overnight so everything was MUDDY.
(And let's be honest, my body HURTS.... lol.)
So.... I guess we'll just weed in the heat.
The high today was 75. Tomorrow will be 99.
Guess the cool snap is over.
Darn.
Oh yeah, I need to harvest beans.
Not bad!