Harvesting

With spring time and summer we are starting to get a bit of a harvest again. We have been picking spinach and silver beet for a long time and the lettuce is now also really growing and giving us lots of nice meals. Additionally we have sweet peas that are growing well.

On the berry front we have now harvested two good lots of strawberries and raspberries. We also have a few logan berries coming out (a garden variety of black berries). Here's a little harvest done about a week and a half ago:

We have also been supplying some neighbours with silver beet for quite some time. Now lucky for us, they have a cherry farm, and due to the rains we had lately some of their cherries have gone a bit soft and therefore cannot be sold. People are just a bit too picky !

But we were then invited over to do some picking and an hour later this was the result:

We sat down last night and took all the pits out of them and this morning Geir had is first ever attempt of making cherry jam. But since we had some much, we have also put 9 milk cartons of cherries in the freezer (about 7.5 kg) and after cooking up 3.3kg of berries with 2.5kg of sugar and some lemon juice, we ended up with 10 jars of jam:

So now we just have to wait for it to cool down before we start eating it !!

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