#ulog 25! Today's Treats on the Ol' Homestead

Heh heh heh...

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You Like That?

Well there's plenty more where that came from kiddos. Get ready for an abundance of tasty homestead delights and shameless selfies. All fresh picked for you today!

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Fun Fact: It's always 4:20 somewhere.

Ugh...egg washing day...

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I know we've discussed it before #STEEM Fam, how obnoxious it is to wash eggs, and only North Americans expect eggs to be spotless, shining and clean.

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If I want to sell them here I have to wash them, and then immediately refrigerate, as washing takes off the egg's natural coating that keeps bacteria out. I never wash the ones we keep for our family, I enjoy a bit of fluffy-butt feather on my egg shell, it's cute.

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Such a lovely variety of colours our girls lay eh?

The Harvest of the Day

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Enough green beans for several meals. I've frozen a lot of them this year too, nothing better than a taste of the garden in the winter, I use them in soups and stews mainly. They actually have flavour unlike store bought frozen green beans.

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Zucchini. What one do you think will taste better? I find smaller fruits and veg are always more tasty.

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Tomatoes. People ask if I ever make sauces, man it's hard to grow enough tomatoes to make sauce, especially in our house, this plate of tomatoes would be lucky to last the day. We go through them like crazy, just fresh, as snacks when you walk by. I grow tomatillos too, and thankfully no one eats them raw so we can at least get off a batch of salsa using those.

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Baby Potatoes. I just dug out a few for fun, looks like the potato patch, though small, is a healthy one.

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Ground Cherries. I'm still not sure how I feel about these things...sometimes they taste good and other times they taste pretty weird. Just decide what you are ground cherry!! Are you a sweet fruit, or are you tomato? Whatever, it's fun to peel them at least.

Saving Seeds

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Poppy and Pea seeds finally dry enough to store. I let them dry on their plants outside, then harvested the seeds and let them dry in some egg cartons for about a week.

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Not a bad haul eh?

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I'll Leave You All With This Cuteness...

When I was harvesting the pea seeds on the deck a few rolled into cracks in the deck...well...we had some rain and...

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Be. This. Guy.

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