Look at my garden August 2025

Good afternoon. I just cleaned up from working up some tomatoes today.  I got 2 large pots full of puree tomatoes and the packet from Mrs. Wages in them, plus 2 Dutch ovens full.  I am working on Mrs. Tomato soup, her pasta sauce, and her pizza sauce.  You know we must clean the tomatoes, scald them, core them and skin them, and then I use a food processor to puree the tomatoes.  That mess is done for now.  Tomorrow I will continue to process in the hot water canner I have.  I use the electric Ball one, that I  just love.  It controls the temperature, and the boiling so just have to time how long to leave them in.  When I used the stove ones, I was always checking the burner turning it up or down depending on what it needed.  I love that ping sound. 

Our weather today is again humid, but there is a little breeze.  82F(28C) dew point is 68F so it feels humid out.    Low tonight of 62F(16C)  Thursday and Friday are to be similar temperatures and humidity, but the weather for the weekend will feel more fall like high of only around 70F(20C)  less humid.  We will see hope so.  This hot and humid weather is getting old.  Hard to work out in the garden for sure.  I still have 3 wagons to clean up but that will come.   Stay cool, stay safe.

Australia family and friends for their Thursday August 21st will start out cool at 37F(3C0 but end up being a nice day at 65F(18C).  Evelyn said she was going to start seeds for tomatoes and peppers.  Remember it is the start of their spring.  Time for us that I am posting this is 4:30 PM Wed.  Their time now would be 7:30 AM Thursday.  Stay warm, stay safe
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If you drive by you will not see the 3 wagons, we have them under the trees by the house on the south side, so they don’t dry out as much as they would when they are out in the sun.  What I have posted pictures of is what I have developed as my garden.  I have been working on this since June, but you couldn’t see if because of the wagons.  I am enjoying the garden and hope to do some planting.  Yes, more planting.  I just love to plant. Hope you enjoy the garden as much as I do. 
Till next time this is Becky Litterer, Becky’s Greenhouse, Dougherty Iowa [email protected]  641-794-3337  cell 641-903-9365  Beckysgreenhouse.com  Facebook Becky Kerndt Litterer or Becky’s Greenhouse