Monday, August 6, 2012

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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25 comments:

  1. What a wonderful harvest! The red currant jelly looks delicious. You have been very busy.
    Betty

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    1. Thank you, Betty! This work in the garden and harvest is one of the joys in my life.

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  2. Welcome to Nadeżda!
    I was worried.
    I see that you worked very hard.

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    1. Hello, Lucia-Maria, I like to read your posts and photos, all is OK, thank you!

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  3. Nadieżdo!
    In very good people grow great flowers and vegetables.
    Your are beautiful.
    Lucia

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    1. Thank you,Lucia! I enjoy my flowers and fruit and veges too.

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  4. Nadeżdda!
    I ask for comment.
    He went away into space.
    Thank you very much.
    Sorry.
    Lucia

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  5. You are quite the gardener and cook. I love the look of the red currents. I bet the jelly is yummy. Your bird friends are delightful and that duck on your pond--so sweet! Have a great week!

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    1. Yes, Grace, my jelly is very tasty! Thank you!

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  6. that cheeky chaffinch eating the seeds!
    My vegetables never work, my garden is too shady and I don't have a greenhouse. But I grow lettuces and herbs and tomatoes in containers on the terrace. Nothing is ripe yet, except the berries. I still have to pick the currants.

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    1. Frico, I'm not angry at the birds, they need food.
      You will also have a harvest in your garden and I think that working with the weeds, berries and vegetables you will be distracted from the sad thoughts. Thank you!

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  7. Gorgeous pictures of the red currants in your first picture! You seem like you now live in paradise, everything good to eat popping out of your garden. Maybe the one bird was looking at you so sweetly to distract you as the other ate up your seeds. They are too cute to be angry with :)

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    1. Rosemary, I love red currant for its sweet-sour taste and my cucumbers, they crunch very nice when I eat them.
      Of course. I'm not angry with these little birds, now want to buy new feeder for winter time. Thank you!

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  8. Beautiful photos! Lovely assistants! A lot of harvest!

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    1. Thank you, Satu! Fortunately these assistants have gone to another place, not in my greenhouse.

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  9. Oh so pretty birds! Sweet!
    Your fruits and veggies look very good. We have no ...
    Besides my roses and other flowers and bushes we only have apples, pears and blackberries and elderberries. Your jelly looks very delicious

    Nadezda, I was in our Baltic Sea at Sunday! Haha, but only with my feet! 20° --- to cold!!

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    1. Meggie, this summer our Baltic sea was not warm, you see. Here, the water was colder, I suppose about +17 C, it's cold for feet too. I hope your harvest of apples and pears will be great!

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  10. Yes I hope so too, but they are very small. But we'll collect them and than they can be juiced.
    And I will cook some stewed apples.

    I think the water became again colder ...

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  11. What beautiful fruits and vegetables! You are such an excellent gardener! Your jelly looks delicious. :o)

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    1. Yes, this jelly looks and tastes delicious. It's good for a breakfast during the cold and long winter time. Thank you!

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  12. Nadieżdo,
    your every comment to me is very precious and very dear.
    Kisses.

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  13. It is too hot here for red and black currants Nadezda. I have tried them but they need too much water. Usually raspberries grow well but this year there have been much fewer. Your summer is so short, you must cherish every momment. Christina

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    1. You can cook the jam or jelly using your delicious peaches! You're right I have and I cherish every warm day and moment. Thank you!

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