Freezing Time

It may not be freezing weather outside but it is definitely freezing time inside. I have been filling my freezer with fresh snap beans, okra for both frying and boiling, pears, tomatoes for canning later, squash, and butter beans. Local growers have had a very good year so far, so there are many sources for fresh Baldwin County grown produce if you know where to look. Here around Lillian I have seen signs advertising okra, pears, muscadines, scuppernongs, melons, tomatoes, and squash.
Our unusually cool summer this year has given me tomato plants which are still putting on fruits and I have yet to see any of those terrible big black stink bugs. I wish I could say the same for the army worms which are chewing my okra to pieces. We had a heavy crop of figs and our fall peas are looking good. I am afraid all the wet weather has ruined our pecan crop though, with most of the small green nuts turning black already.