This right here is a staple in our house! This is our third year making our own sauce, and we go through at least 70 quarts a year. In previous years, and once already in the spring, I have bought a couple of boxes of canning tomatoes from the farmer’s market at about $8-$10 a box.… Read More Homemade Pasta Sauce
They look awful. Just awful. The blight I mentioned before has infected most of my tomatoes to some degree, some a lot and some only a little. I have been trying to apply the Liqui-Cop to combat it, but I think the rain has not helped at all. I really hate showing bad pictures, but here goes:… Read More My Poor Tomatoes
On Tuesday night I went out to harvest more tomatoes, which you can see below. We are getting so many! I also picked some cucumbers, yellow and Lebanese squash, and a few beets to roast. The tomatoes are still coming in and are beautiful and delicious, despite the blight. We harvested roughly the same amount of tomatoes… Read More A Little Garden Cost Analysis
Harvest There is nothing like a fresh ripe tomato from the garden, and what only makes it better is beautiful variety. Below is a half bushel of tomatoes I harvested last night. I am growing Black Krim, Dr. Wyche’s Yellow, Black Cherry, Green Vernissage Cherry, Sunrise Bumblebee Cherry, as well as a Yellow Pear and Cherokee… Read More Tomatoes
Since this is my first year growing potatoes, I have been doing a lot of research on how to plant them, cover them, and when to harvest them. That is a big issue on my mind right now – when do I harvest?? In this video, this guy harvests when the potatoes when they start to… Read More Harvesting Potatoes
In the past, I have liked playing war games on the computer like Age of Empires, the kind were you have villagers gather resources and you get to build different types of soldiers to do battle. There are times when I have not prepared my defenses adequately and an acute sense of panic hits – the… Read More Overrun! (with Tomatoes)
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