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
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...
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…...
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 ...
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
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...
Fall is so busy, it can be hard to keep up with everything. So, it goes, right? And, heck, it really isn’t even fall yet…even if the sun is getting lower and lower on the horizon by the minute and setting earlier and earlier each evening. Still, the days are shorter and getting everything done seems harder. Following are a few things you might enjoy:- Tomato and sandwich recipes, plus thoughts on throwing out food- Controlling Leaf Miners—those suckers love to hit our fal...
Aug 31, 2008 I just did up a batch of 12 pints of chili sauce. YUMMY. This batch is a little watery because I’ll be adding it to ribs, roasts, and other dishes. This recipe is from my mom’s recipies: 12 quarts tomatoes8 medium onions4 sweet peppers2 handfuls of pickling salt1/2 tsp celery seed2c cider vinegar. Cook til almost thickAdd 8 c brown sugarcook til thickJar.
What a great day to be out in the garden for pictures and a strole through the rows! Lots of sights and sounds and wonderful smells :D. As Always I saw the resident finches in and amungst the sunflowers, which have started to bloom (each finch seams to be laying claim to a new head hehe). Too bad they’re so quick to take a pic of :( But I was able to snap some of the sunflowers, sorry only yellow talls and giants so far; The flower row was looking particularlly happy today:This y...
Well the garden is doing very well. The tomatoes are growing really nicely. Though some things have yet to sprout, the bulk of it is all coming along nicely. As you can see, Donovan is enjoying the garden as always. He’s only picked off one tomato so far, which, he quickly learned was a bad thing until ripe. Just look at those tomatoes.. Nice.. Nice indeed.. Growing really well.. We’d have to tie the plants up at least three times already. The purple peppers are d...
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