Green Beans and Tomatoes

Labor Day, September 2, 2013, was a day to work at our house! 
     Monday was a perfect day......77* and breezy.  We were up early and went and picked tomatoes!  Most of you all know that our home was affected by the flooding in the Midwest this past spring.  Our entire finished basement was ruined!  Our children's 3 bedrooms, bathroom/laundry room, furnace room and storage area was all covered in 2-3 foot of sewage.  Devastating to say the least!  Anyway, I will show updated photos in a later post, however, because of the flooding we were very late getting our garden planted.
      So, our garden has provided enough goodies for eating but not enough for canning.  We have been so blessed by good friends sharing some of their green beans and tomatoes, that we were able to get some canning done!
                                         

Emily

Derek

Grandma Keller helped

Bean fight....

I had some wonderful green bean snappers helping me......of course there was a small green bean fight.

 I ended up with 12 quarts.

Sharayah stepped in to help with the tomatoes.....

Love them so much!

We ended up with 16 quarts of tomatoes,

2 quarts of tomato juice, and 21 pints of tomatoes!!

Later on, Sharayah wanted to "hold" Missy....I think she got goosebumps when she was walking on her shoulder!

Such a great day with my family!

I will leave you with a couple of pics of Emily sporting her new outfit from CATO

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How does your garden grow...???

I took a little stroll outside in my yard yesterday to check out all of my flowers and my vegetable garden.  Amazingly, everything is growing so well!  We haven't had any measurable rain for a long time, but my mother in law, Debbie, has been faithfully working in the garden and it really shows!  She has a wonderful green thumb when it comes to gardening, whether with flowers or veggies.  

                                      

                       Doesn't this look great?   
John was working in the garden as well, and picked a bunch of radishes!  My wonderful husband has been doing a lot of the watering of the garden.  He and my son, Derek, planted the whole thing.   But, don't worry!!  My time is coming when it's harvest time....I get to do all the freezing, canning, and cooking of the garden!  

                                      
               I found our first cucumber of the year!   

                                     
I also seen a lot of tomatoes growing and tons of blooms!!

Big boys

Romas

cherry tomatoes

look at all those blooms!

                                         
             Our squash and zucchini are blooming too! 

    Well, you've seen the vegetable garden....so here are a few pictures of the flowers that were starting to bloom.....

Mums already??

columbine

 Look at the best husband in the whole world...planting more flowers for me!!!

my husband, John

                                        
 I could spend all day outside with the flowers and my garden.   My kids enjoy planting and watching it grow.  It's how we got Derek to eat radishes, onions, and zucchini.  Emily loves helping to make pickles and salsa in the fall!  I hope you enjoyed all the pics.  Feel free to leave your comments below!