2012 Garden

This year is the first year I am going to preserve what I grow in my garden. In previous years I grew hobby gardens, meaning, I planted a variety of things and hoped they grew. This year, I mean business!

In my garden this year are 47 Amish Paste tomato plants, 8 Banana Pepper plants, 8 Sweet Rainbow mix peppers, 49 King Arthur Green Pepper plants, and 12 Jalepeno plants. Along with these there are about 60 Kentucky Wonder green bean plants and about 30 Pea plants.

During the winter I make alot of homemade Sloppy Joes. Last year I bought green pepper's at the store on sale and froze them. They worked well, so this year I grew enough pepper plants to hopefully get enough pepper's so I don't have to buy any. I am really excited to see if I make my goal out of my garden. 

Last year I had 12 tomato plants. We ate alot of tomato sandwiches and I had thought if I had more tomato plants I could can them. As I was canning last year if I was a tomato short of a quart I would add one of mine and I wished I had done it differently. I wished I had grown good canning tomatoes. I learned from my experience and did it differently this year. The tomatoes I bought last year was from a farm down the street, so I was able to support my local economy, which made me feel good.

This year I hope to make salsa, so that is the reason for the variety of pepper plants.

I am really excited to see how much preserved food I get out of my garden this year!