August harvest

August is the last summer month in the North. The berries and vegetables ripen, it's time to collect them.

Ripe redcurrant berries already crumble from their branches.
I've collected two bowls of red- and blackcurrant and cooked redcurrant berries jelly. 

The cold jelly is very thick and does not drop from a spoon.  

Here is the recipe: 1 liter of currant juice + 1 kg of sugar, boil 10 minutes and put hot jelly in a jar. 
I cook the blackcurrant  jelly by the same way. 

Raspberries also began to ripen.

There are the carrots and different varieties  of squash, white, yellow and green. Carrots are not long, but very sweet. I love to fry squash with carrots and tomatoes.

These tomatoes are v. Cherry, a lot of them are on the plants and these still ripen in the box, and then I'll make tomatoes for a breakfast.

The cucumbers grow in my greenhouse, they are two v., with prickles and smooth. 

I like to make pickles adding black currants and horseradish leaves, dill, cloves of garlic.
 
I've got helpers in my garden. The first bird has arrived to help me in the greenhouse.

Then another one began to look for the seeds of radish, which I planted two days ago!

After the work is well to sit by the pond and to see the sky reflected in the water.

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