The canning continues

We are trying to get as much stuff canned as possible before we leave on vacation next week. So far this weekend we have picked and canned wild blackberries. they are really good canned. a neighbor has lots in their woods and let us pick. With the dry weather we were surprised to see so many. They are a little on the sour side but once canned they will be sweeter. We froze a few quarts of green beans and hope to make some saurkraut today. Hope everyone is busy in the garden.

Tomato

Tomatos doing well. We have been eating daily, BLT's are great

tomatot

Side garden climbers

Side garden tomatoes are doing much better than tomatoes located away from the house. The heat bouncing off the wall is making a difference.

Tomatillos are producing, massively. They are very pretty - remind me of chinese lanterns.

And with the garlic harvested, we replanted the side garden with cabbage, sweet peppers, black beans, celery, basil and carrots.

Another busy weekend. We picked apricots and lots of cukes. We willmake bread and butter pickles and apricot jam Saturday. The apricots are not very nice looking but taste good.

Canning marathon

Mom came to stay with us this weekend, I think I wore us out!! We canned 9 quarts of dill pickles,
5 pints of raspberry-gooseberry jam, 3 pints of pickled beets, we used a new recipe using red wine vinegar it was good. We froze 8 quarts of kohlrabi and then made 2 large jars of refrigerator dill pickles. It was fun canning with Mom. She helped peel and wash vegetables.

The peppers are starting, I found a recipe in Mother Earth News to make homemade hot sauce, it sounds good if anyone wants the recipe it should be on this months website. If I get a good bunch of hot peppers I am going to try it.

tomato wilt

Looking for some advise from my gardening expert sisters. This happens to me almost every year with my tomatoes. The plants look healthy and there is plenty of fruit but the leaves start to die, mostly on the bottom. Not really easy to see with this pic.

I replaced my soil last year and am using disease resistant hybrid seeds.

Any ideas what is causing this (or is this normal) ? I plant them close together (about 2x2 ft apart) and water with a hose usually once a day (not sure if this is too much). I keep planning on getting soaker hose but haven't done it yet.

thanks