1 day ago
by MsDebbieP |
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Sept.2/10
Am I finally reaching the end of my tomatoes?
I picked the last of the red ones today .. and I’m not sure if the green ones will ripen before the plants all die off. They are looking pretty sad.
I did up another 8 pints of tomato sauce along with 6 pints of tomato juice (well, it’s really “tomato liquid” since I’ve taken as much pulp out of it as I possibly can. I read that this makes great marinade for fish. I added some lime juice to it to ra...
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2 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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Sept.1/10
Yesterday, my daughter and I teamed up and spent half of a day canning tomatoes. We made a big batch of salsa, dividing it into two – half with hot peppers and half without. We have a total of 14 pints.
We also had some unused tomatoes which we canned (6 pints of stewed tomatoes) and the juice created by squeezing out the seeds was turned into 6 pints of tomato juice.
The WeatherIt seems that I only like to can on the hottest days of the summer. Some day when I’...
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104 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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May 22/10
Yesterday, I spent the morning making a trip to Lee Valley to purchase some of the drip spikes. :)
On my way to Lee Valley I have to drive past my local garden centre (big grin)yesterday’s purchase was a new rain barrel – I got tired of waiting for a freebie donation. (I’ll be posting a project about this).
Next, I headed to Lee Valley and I ended up with the following
watering drip spikes
wavy trellis rod thingies
a garden net that was on the disco...
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141 days ago
by soobee |
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What kinds of tomatoes do you grow? Please let me know your faves. Good ol’ Martha Stewart had an article on tomatoes in a recent magazine and of course, they all looked just magnificent and most likely only available if you have Martha’s kind of connections…..;) I’m going to choose the ‘already growed’ kind again this year. Ha.
The Greenhouse is gearing up for the ‘peeps’ – it will be 19 here all weekend (you wouldnt’ know it ...
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346 days ago
by Bob |
21 comments »
This was a good year for tomatoes here . Off to a slow start with cold and snow, it recovered in June and has been warm and sunny for the remainder of the summer right up into September.We have had little rain which caused a bit of over watering and splitting of some fruit but other than that, it was a wonderful year from both quantity and quality
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348 days ago
by logboy73 |
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I’m not sure what I’m doing differently than everyone else. Everyone around here has said it was a bad year for tomatoes. Apparently my garden of Better Boys and cherry tomatoes missed the memo. All my plants reached 6 feet or taller before collapsing the wire cages. Yes, the cages bent over under the weight of the tomatoes. Tomato meets steel, steel fails, tomato wins. So for the last month or so we haven’t really had bushes so much as we’ve had a tomato vine tha...
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375 days ago
by mario1360 |
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finally with some nice basil too…..delicious and so rewarding….in my 3 plants I counted 42 tomatoes, should be enough for a nice sauce…...to freeze and enjoy at christmas dinner…...
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375 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
8 comments »
Aug 24/09
OK.. I took a nibble of this relish and it’s yummy. So here’s the recipe. (The recipe is from www.grouprecipes.com)
Green Tomato Relish
Ingredients 2 quarts green tomatoes chopped ( I used a food processor to chop it up)3 cups sugar3 green peppers diced3 red peppers diced3 cups vinegar5 large onions finely chopped3 tablespoons salt1 tablespoons celery seed1 tablespoons allspice2 tablespoons mustard seed1 tablespoons turmeric
Directions Mix all vegetables in ...
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376 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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Aug 23/09
Dehydrating Tomatoes
Tips
firm tomatoes
I didn’t peel them; seemed to work fine but I’ll have to wait until I try eating one
a tomato slicer cuts tomato into consistent-thickness slices
5-tray Excalibur holds about 4 tomatoes per tray
store slices in jar of olive oil = “sun dried tomatoes” (can add dried herbs to the oil
dehydrate 7 hours at 145 degrees
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448 days ago
by Scott Hildenbrand |
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And here’s the rest in a much wider view.
The garden along the walk is popping left and right. In a few days I figure there will be color the whole way down.
So going to love breaking up this sidewalk and putting in something more flowing down through here.
It’s almost like we were meant to be here.. This is what is across the road in the ditch.. Runs for a good way either direction and almost in conjunction with our property line.
The dog run is still looking jam p...
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