Apple sauce and pie filling

The garden is beginning to produce some nice veggies. We did a very early pick (or late thinning?) of some carrots and beans and dug a few potatoes to make a veggie pot pie this week. The beans were amazing--so much better fresh than frozen.

The last of the raspberries are also coming ripe (the delicious but thorny black raspberries).

We're also finally seeing some tomatoes ripen. I suspect it will be a late year for these guys and probably a "headlamps in the sleet" pick one night.

Jenn bought some strawberries at the farmers market this week so I made six litres of strawberry-rhubarb pie filling. There was also some left over to go on ice cream.

And a friend dropped off a bag of early apples, so I sauced them on the weekend. we got about 10 litres of sauce in the end. Our own apples are a ways off from picking and I plan to dehydrate some of them.

My tiny plot at the community garden is going well, with radish and chard germinated and starting to put out real leaves. Not sure we'll get a crop off, though! In the meantime, we continue to plan the new back yard as we get closer to garage demolition (fences and signs arrived this week).