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This is 34 pounds of cherries (give or take a couple of handfuls). As it turns out, cherry pitters are as rare as hen's teeth around these parts but I finally (finally) scored one after driving all the way up to the north end of Toledo to Williams-Sonoma. Having already been to 5 (yes, five) stores looking for the elusive cherry pitter (and at the point where I was going to FIND ONE OR ELSE), I walked in and two sales people asked if I'd like some pie and ice cream?
Why yes, yes I would. Three bites of tasty berry pie and about four bites of ice cream with chocolate sauce later, I was having a much better day! :) Then I made off with the last cherry pitter on their shelf with a huge sense of relief.
I still had to stop at the grocery store (which was actually my second time there as the first time they didn't have said cherry pitter), fill the gas tank, and retreat home. Where there was work to be done in the heat and humidity!
I moved the pumpkin/melon starts outside as the heat in the greenhouse is pretty prohibitive. I also moved the lettuce over next to them for easier watering, but still kept them up on a table.
The potato buckets were going dry because it was too inconvenient to check the water levels where I had them sitting. So now they're all lined up next to the shed with the water access holes all facing outwards. They were also watered thoroughly, of course.
One of these days I'll figure out the secret to taking a good picture of this and other tomato plants. In the meantime, this is the Sweet Million plant - all that yellow on the plant is the flowers that will eventually turn into tomatoes.
A watermelon in progress! It's just under the size of a baseball right now.
Jars were gathered for tomorrow's canning efforts, a water bath canner was retrieved from the upper part of the shed, and then I had to break for meeting. Now with online meeting concluded (er... in a few minutes, that is), I'm zooming back out to the garden to check the peas for dinner!
eta: FIRST OFFICIAL HARVEST! I was able to glean off some peas! A grand total of *drumroll* 4 ounces. Before shelling. Which is about enough for... one serving. MINE, ALL MINE. ♥
