Big Garden Freeze - But All Was Not Lost

I went to Utah on September 6th to visit family, go through bunches of STUFF that had been stored in my grandparents home, and help my sister with some canning.  We ended up canning pickled beets, snapping/freezing beans for her and canning peaches for me.  I know I’ve said many times how much I do not like canning but the end results are beautiful……well…..this time, my sister, her husband, my daughter, and I were all canning together and it was actually fun…all of it!
The morning of my departure, our garden took a hit with frost.  Lots of frost. Thank goodness we already picked, snapped, and froze all our beans and  we had also picked and froze our corn on the weekend before the freeze.  I guess we can owe that to the coons because on Friday night there was a huge raccoon sitting on our back porch so my husband thought we’d better get all the corn picked before the coon got it. Never thought I would be thanking the coons for helping in harvesting our garden.

My husband has grass that encloses our entire garden and you can see how white it is.

Below is the back window of our car……..just to show you how much frost we received.

When I got home from Utah, 9 days later, my husband stated that all was not lost.  There were some hearty veggies that pulled through getting snipped by the frost………cabbage, broccoli, beets and zucchini (although our zucchini didn’t really do too good)..and of course, our potatoes.  My husband puts in many hours tending to our garden and then I do most of the freezing and canning of the veggies.  The Lord truly blesses us each year with a bountiful garden.