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Ah Summer!
The best part of summer is fresh food. One of the things I do that takes too much time and makes no sense (ie hobby) is growing and preserving my own food.
The second season for strawberries has started and I pick a bowl of these every morning.  Sunday morning harvest: 20 lbs onions, 14 lbs cucumbers, 6 lbs beets.  The best part is the tomatoes! I only buy white bread once a year because you can only make a tomato sammich with fresh tomatoes and white bread.  The basics. It's really all you need.  Maybe add some homemade bread and butter pickles.  Or maybe a grilled pepper.  Or add nature's most perfect food - BACON!  So far I've canned 18 pints of Bread & Butter pickles, 4 of Dill, 4 of Grilled pickles, 6 pickled beets and frozen a quart of pesto.  The Dills will be pretty tasty in about a month.  The Grilled pickles are good now, but in a month or so - mmmmm.  Bread and Butter pickles waiting to be canned. Onions, garlic, cucumbers and basil are all harvested and put away. I have about 3 pints of pesto. The Roma tomatoes, habaneros, jalapenos, and Anaheims will be ready next week. I'll probably make 24 pints of salsa.
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08-19-2014, 12:02 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: MD
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Well done.
I've been eating tomatoes everyday for a few weeks now. Good idea with the cucumbers, I need to read into pickling, not a great crop this year but I still had too many to eat at once. |
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08-19-2014, 12:11 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Fulshear, Texanistan
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It doesn't get any better than a bacon tomato sandwich on white bread. However, being from a white trash background, I prefer Miracle Whip.....
 That is some primo produce you are growing Patrick ... I just planted my fall tomatoes last week but I'm not sure they are going to survive this heat.
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08-19-2014, 12:17 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Cooterville, Cackalacky
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I love 'mater sammys!!!!!!
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08-19-2014, 01:02 PM
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What's your recipe for "growing" bacon? I can't seem to get my bacon bushes to to take root and produce fruit!
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08-19-2014, 01:14 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Growing (making) Bacon  My cukes and tomatoes are doing fantastic this year, I already have made about a gallon of tomato sauce and a bunch of fruit ripening on the vines...
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08-19-2014, 01:51 PM
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You said summer.... I thought...
Anyone with children will understand. |
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08-19-2014, 02:26 PM
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Have been hitting the BLTs pretty hard for a while now. Late peaches should be ready pretty soon. I have these little orange tomatoes, like eating candy almost.
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08-19-2014, 09:10 PM
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