harvest time

Our weather is still very mild and even though it's raining quite a bit we still spend lot of time outside. Hiking, mushroom picking, prepping the yard and garden for winter.
Je stale jeste teplo i kdyz dost casto prsi. To nam ale nebrani chodit na prochazky, na houby, pripravovat zahradu na zimu a vubec travit hodne casu na cerstvem vzduchu :)

 Mushroom galore
Houbove nadeleni

 Boletus
Hribky
 

 Chanterelles
Lisky

 Lobster mushrooms
Houby zvane lobster neboli humr.

They are delicious.
Jsou vyborne.

 Gorgeous morning on the water visiting friends on Hornby.
Krasne rano na vode pri navsteve Ostrova Hornby.

 Fords Cove Marina
Pristav Fords Cove

Harvested peppers from our greenhouse
Papriky ze skleniku

 using the last of the tomatoes
a rajcata

and canning it so I can later make Hungarian Lecsó (also, letscho, letcho, or lecho, depending on the transliteration).

zavarena na leco.

I made this hat from a pattern I found here.
Hackovana cepice podle popisu (trosku upraveneho) LenkyH.

And a little sneak peek into my "craft room".  I will show you more next time.

A male nahlednuti do me "dilny".  Priste vam ukazu vic.

Az se zima zepta......

Asi jsem se zblaznila ale letos jsem uz zpracovala (kompoty,dzemy,drene,catni,nakladana zelenina) :

27kg tresni (a vsechny vypeckovala)
40kg broskvi
10kg svestek
18kg hrusek
20kg boruvek
30kg okurek
20kg zelenych fazolek
11kg cervene repy

Na zitrek mam nachystany dalsi 11kg pytel cervene repy.Ted nam zacinaji dozravat jablka,z tech delam jablecnou dren a most a pak uz jen nalozit zeli.Pri nakupu bio ovoce a zeleniny (neco je z nasi zahradky) z mistnich zdroju vime ze nekonzumujeme chemicky osetrene plody a ja si rikam,ze se vsechna ta prace s tim spojena vyplati.

I must be crazy but this year I already processed (jams,relishes,can fruits and pickled veggies) :

60 lbs cherries

90 lbs peaches

20 lbs plums

40 lbs pears

45 lbs blueberries

65 lbs cucumbers

45 lbs green beans

25 lbs red beets

I have one more 25 lbs bag of red beets waiting for me to do tomorrow.The apples are ripening in the garden.I usually make apple sauce and juice and after that I'll make sauerkraut. When you buy(some we grow) organic fruits and veggies locally I think that at the end all this work is worth it.

Recept na Cuketovou kari polevku najdete tady a Salat z cervene repy zde.

You can find the recipe for Curried zucchini soup here and Red beet salad here.