BLACKBERRIES..... WE'RE JAMMIN'

Garden overview-Maggie in the blackberry patch

We had a fun day in the garden today.  We harvested lots of blackberries!  I knew there were coming on and I've been wanting to make jam so I bought some jam jars this week and....

Jim in the blackberries

Maggie in the blackberries

Blackberry harvest

blackberry jam

Simmering jam and sterilizing jars and lids

We also got to turn over Bed 8, finally.  It looks much better.  The onions in bed 9 are lying down and getting close to being ready to harvest.  Which reminded us that our garlic was hanging to cure/dry in the garage and was probably ready to finish.  We pulled it down, cleaned and trimmed it and now we are ready to start cooking.

Bed 8 turned over, onions lying down in bed 9

Cleaning garlic

Jim with garlic harvest