Canning Salsa

I found some time to make some salsa and can it. I used the tomatoes and cucumbers from our garden. Unfortunately, I did not have enough jalapenos and didn't have any Anaheim peppers, cilantro, or onion. So it was semi-from our garden. These are the naked tomatoes from our garden, waiting to be seeded and chopped. I had to roast the Anaheim peppers before using them in the recipe.(I didn't need all of them!) This is the salsa waiting to be put in jars. Here are the eight pints of salsa, all in a pretty row! I had about a quarter cup leftover, so we let it cool and enjoyed with chips! It had some kick to it, but it wasn't anything we couldn't handle. I'm just hoping to get enough tomatoes to make another batch!

Planting

So it's Easter weekend, and we plan on planting potatoes and onion seed today. First, we have to re-till the garden and put up a fence to keep those pesky rabbits out of it. I don't know why, but there is a huge rabbit problem in this town. I haven't been able to keep green beans or carrots since we moved to this house. And it doesn't seem to matter how much blood meal we put out, they keep coming. And they will eat tomatoes, if that's what's left. We have about a month before we should plant anything else in our vegetable garden. I do have some bare spots around some fences that need some plants. Hopefully the begonia's I picked up will survive. I have a nice shady spot picked our for them.

I'm also hoping to plant herbs in the next couple of weeks. We're expected to have mostly sunshine next week, so that will be really helpful in planting.