Saving Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce Seeds. 8.29.22

 I cut some flower heads from the Black Seeded Simpson lettuce plants that I let bolt.

It's easy.  Just cut the scruffy looking flower heads.  Store them in an open paper bag until winter.  Then they will be fully dried out and ready to clean up.

Tomato Sauce. 8.29.22

 I used the Roma tomatoes to make seven packets of frozen tomato sauce.  I also made some pasta sauce for supper.

The Roma tomato plants have about three times as many green tomatoes.  Maybe more.  So there will be more sauce ahead.

Repotting The Brugmansia. 8.29.22

 The sad looking little Brugmansia has grown a lot.  It is pushing flower buds now.  I think it outgrew the container, so I repotted into one with twice the volume.

The black plastic container absorbs heat from the sun and heats the soil too much.  In the past I found that a shiny foil cover reduced the soil temp by 10 or 15 degrees F, so I did that today.

Canning Asian Pears. 8.27.22

 I canned the first batch of Asian pears.  Followed USDA canning book recipe, light syrup.  They came out very good.

Tomato Harvest. 8.27.22

 Here are the tomatoes I harvested today.  Plus some peppers and onions.

I'm cooking the sauce tomatoes now to make frozen tomato sauce.  I also added a few of the firmer other ones.  

These are from dwarf varieties.  They are just starting to ripen.  The pink ones are Livingston Dwarf Champion.  The red one is Livingston Dwarf Stone.  There should be many more of the other ones soon.