We are continuing to harvest tomatoes, peppers, zuchs, and eggs daily. The girls laid 9 eggs yesterday! Rick looks happy with his basket of ripe tomatoes.
Catherine gets silly with her tomato harvest.
Everything is a little behind this year because of the cool weather. The tomatillos are just starting to fruit up. The ones at the farm had a pretty rocky start, but they've come back and are doing well.
I made a big pot of jalapeno paste from the peppers I picked the other day, and I gave Buddy a little bottle of it. This is very concentrated and will go a long way.
And the hot flowers are just gorgeous. The Queen Sophia marigolds, Bright Lights cosmos, and Old Mexico zinnas were real winners.
Rick got going on another modification for the chicken pen. The straw bedding was just being kicked out between the wires, so Rick cut some old fence boards...
...cleaned the pen....
...and installed the boards along the sides to keep the bedding in.
Bill came over to have a beer with us.
I got brought some plant starts over to set on the potting table. I wasn't sure if they needed shading, but they did. That spot gets a ton of sun, and after the first day, the starts got pretty droopy.
So I put the shade cover up. Rick helped me cut some pvc to make it stand a little taller so I could reach under it to work. This works pretty well, but it will have to be cinched down somehow before any wind or weather comes up.
Sunday, we planned to go to the pub with Karen and Glen, but when we arrived, it turned out they were closed. We were so disappointed. We racked our brains for another option. What we really wanted was to sit on the patio, eating pizza and drinking Sierra Nevada beer. So we finally decided to grab a pizza and drink on our patio. Karen and Glen went and got the pizza, and we poured pilsner. We added fresh tomatoes, basil, hot peppers, and parmesan to our pizzas, making them much better.
After that we racked the plum wine. It tasted good, with no off flavors. It was pretty chunky, however, and we'll need to rack it again, this time into a smaller container. I'll need to go buy a three-gallon carboy, but for now, we just used the five-gallon one, and topped it off with CO2, put on an airlock, and stuck it in the basement. We'll rack it again in two months, then bottle it and age it. It should be ready in April. I had to look back in the blogs, but the plums started blooming in Feb. So this wine won't be ready for plum blossom time, but it will certainly be done before the next harvest.
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