I finagled the use of a dump trailer for the weekend and spent most of Saturday hauling horse poo from the neighbor lady's stable. Brought home ~56cu/yard. Not spending the $150 to rent a trailer made it a bit easier to swallow the $100 fuel bill for the day. Was hoping for another three or four loads on Sunday but Mother Nature said no to that. Booger was quite impressed by the new heap. After all of that work we went for a swim then enjoyed the first purple cherokee BLTs of the summer. Yum Yum. I noticed the romas are starting to ripen so it won't be long until it's time to start making salsa/spaghetti sauce/tomato juice.
After the rain stopped on Sunday I pulled the straw mulch off the potato row and dug the spuds. 30' row made an even bushel. I planted six pounds, so I think the yield was decent. The two halves of the row were planted two weeks apart, with the later planting providing ~2/3 of the harvest. Booger likes to help in the garden. Any time I'm out there digging she's right there doing her own digging.
Mrs. Augie had a mid-day appointment yesterday so we both took the day off from our gainful employment and got some canning done. It had been a couple years since I made beet pickles and we've been out for quite awhile. 30' row made eleven quarts.
The last big job was harvesting the cabbage and turning it into sauerkraut. Cabbage is hit or miss around here and this time it hit fairly well. Seven heads gave up 15lbs after it was cleaned and shredded. It's salted and packed in a 5 gallon bucket tucked away in the laundry room. I checked it this morning and found it to be properly submerged in salty cabbage juice so there won't be a need to add any liquid. When it's ready in a month-ish (the waiting is the hardest part) I'll repack it into quart jars and store it in the refrigerator
