Creamy Potato Soup all from Our Garden

Our garden has been growing beautifully this summer. I've posted about 8 older posts about past harvests. I'm keeping track of the gardening in a journal. I haven't recorded all the food we eat fresh, but have tried to start recording more faithfully so we can get a true picture of the food per $ ratio. So far my first harvest of potatoes is the equivalent of what I spent on seed potatoes if I were to have to buy the potatoes for us to eat. So the rest of the potatoes are total “profit” from the planting. YEAH!!

Today we harvested 6# tomatoes, 1# 12 oz. Carrots (for a roast tomorrow), 32 yellow onions (20 I hung to dry for later use), 16# 6 oz of red cabbage, 32# 2 oz green cabbage, 1# 4 oz cherry tomatoes, 3 small, 2 medium and 1 large zucchini, and 3 ½ quarts celery. I'm finally done harvesting my first cutting of celery. Our first celery harvest brought in 16 quarts of diced celery that we will use in soups, stews, & bone broth. I also sprinkle it on chicken and roast along with onions and garlic before roasting. Last year our frozen celery lasted us until March. There are 1-3 new bunches growing on each celery plant that I will be able to harvest before the frost. Would you believe that I actually have a blister at the base of my pointer finger from dicing celery.

My tomatoes are starting to ripen. I hope that next week we will see them turning red more quickly so I can start canning sauce and salsa. I have about 4 dozen huge peppers that I'm leaving on the plants until I need them, some are starting to turn red. YUM! We have lots of rutabaga's and turnips that we are pulling as needed for the pigs. There are also many carrots that cold be pulled but for now I'm leaving them in until I need them for a meal. I'd like to wait until it cools down to harvest them. The cool temperatures usually help them to sweeten up more.

My purple and red through potato plants are starting to die off. It will probably be a couple weeks yet until we dig them up. We are still enjoying eating the 40+# of potatoes we dug on the 14th . Well I'm off to chop celery and hopefully get some fall crops planted, if time allows.

Today it is rather cool so we will be making creamy potato and broccoli soup with the fresh produce form our garden: potatoes, broccoli, celery, onion, and parsley. YUM!