I spent most of yesterday picking the crops that are ready to harvest. Most crops come in all at once, and there is no way we can eat all of it before it spoils, so we preserve what we can by freezing or drying, so we can eat it throughout the year.
I started my chores yesterday by picking the raspberries. There was a bumper crop this year and the branches were weighted down by all of the berries on them. There is no way we can even pick all of the berries, let alone eat them. The small bucketful I picked yesterday, we froze.
After picking the raspberries I moved on to the garden, where I did the second picking of our peas. As I expected, Kona joined me in the endeavor, although all of the pea pods she tore off of the vines never made it into my bucket, she ate them. Picking the pods is only the first part of the job. Once I get the pods picked, I have to spend a couple of hours de-podding the peas, which I usually do as I watch TV.
The last bit of harvesting I did yesterday was the oregano. I using scissors, I cut the leaved stems off of the plant, then put them in our food dryer. After a few days in the dryer, the leaves are easily stripped from the stems and fragmented into small flakes. We always use the oregano on the pizza we make every Friday night.
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