Apple Jelly and Potatoes

I’ve been interested in making some crab apple jelly and this week I finally managed to try it out.  It turned out to be just apple jelly because the crab apples along the road aren’t ready yet.  I used 3 different kinds of apples all that I picked along the road where I live.  They were a mixture of ripe and semi ripe apples in order to provide the necessary pectin content.  I was worried it wouldn’t turn out and just end up being this apple syrup, but it was successful.   Because it worked out, yesterday I picked some more apples and today I have been making more.   I will put up a post solely dedicated to jelly later.

Also today I harvested the first potatoes I planted in the spring.  I there were two hills of banana fingerling, two hills of Macintosh black and one hill of blue Russian.  The banana fingerling were larger than I expected and more prolific.  I was surprised but they did out produce the black mac’s. They did however grow very close to the surface and a number of them had green tips. 

 The Macintosh black were all of a decent size and number.   A few had some scab on them but overall not too bad.  The blue Russian were very successful, there was a good mix of large and small potatoes.  There was actually more potatoes from that one hill than, both hills of the black combined.  As well they also had less scab than the blacks.  

These are the russian blues

I also took a picture of the tomato fruit.