Because it's October and the work on our garden seems to be winding down, I thought I'd document for you how the garden did this year. While Nathan has planted three-ish gardens, this one actually seemed to be the best. It was a little late the first year he lived here, but there were some tomatoes. The second year, we planted a bunch of veggies but couldn't get into the backyard for a lot of the summer. So this year's definitely gave us more bang for our buck.
Yesterday we dug up our peanuts, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, which I was very excited about. Unfortunately, we only had three little baby potatoes. But the rest of the garden still did OK. We had tons of tomatoes, herbs, and peppers, and not only were we able to enjoy them this summer, but I was also able to freeze them so we have them for chili this winter. Some of the tomatoes were used to make tomato sauce to use during the winter, too.
The herbs have also been frozen, some using this method, found via Pinterest. I was also able to make some pesto.
It took surprisingly little time to do all of these projects, since we did them all at once a couple of times. I'm sure it will be worth it this winter, too.
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