Our grape vines went from this in 2010:
To this in spring of 2011:
And this year we’re happy to announce we actually got some grapes!!
And we turned them into 9 jars of grape jelly!!
I’m thrilled that pruning them helped and that we didn’t kill the vines 
| Number | Jar Size | Description |
| 40 | pint | apple sauce |
| 16 | pint | pear sauce |
| 20 | half jelly jars | blueberry spice jam |
| 15 | half jelly jars | nectarine jam |
| 9 | reg jelly jars | grape jelly |
| 14 | pint | sliced cinnamon pears |
| 5 | pints | plain salsa |
| 7 | tall jelly jars | corn salsa |
| 31 | reg jelly jars | corn salsa |
| 10 | pint | corn salsa |
| 1 | quart | corn salsa |
| 17 | quart | crushed tomatoes |
| 20 | quart | tomato puree |
| 38 | pint | Spaghetti sauce |
| 5 | pint | dilly beans |
| 5 | quart | dilly beans |
| 3 | pint | pickled Hungarian wax peppers |
| 2 | quart | hot dill Hungarian wax peppers |
| 13 | pint | bread and butter sliced pickles |
| 8 | quart | bread and butter sliced pickles |
| 5 | quart | bread and butter whole pickles |
| 12 | pint | dill pickle slices (new ball recipe) |
| 1 | quart | dill pickle slices (new ball recipe) |
| 12 | quart | dill pickle spears |
| 2 | quart | garlic dill pickles |
| 14 | quart | Wages Dill spears |
| 14 | pint | corn |
| 6 | pint | green beans |
| 19 | quart | potatoes |
| 18 | pint | refried beans |
| 382 | Jars Total |
I have to say honestly, I totaled the number and thought “wow, that’s low”. I thought we produced more than that! This doesn’t account for what we’ve consumed directly or froze, but still it feels like we did more then this. Hopefully my notes are correct! Either way that is certainly a good bit of our food for the next year!! We could still can more, but I’m not going to any great lengths to cover our plants and protect them from frost. We have been covering the sunflowers for the wedding and that is enough of a chore! I just don’t have the time, energy or blankets to cover our food garden too!
How has your summer wrapped up?
After we harvested all of these potatoes we had the perfect open space for our fall crops.
Only problem was it was FULL of weeds! Luckily Jon took care of that while I spent Sunday canning.
All ready to be planted:
These guys made out like bandits with all the extra weeds. They love playing in it, eating bugs and eating the weeds!
Do you have plans for a fall crop?
