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Here’s the cast of characters for tonight’s canning session. Center stage is a beautiful assortment of prize winning homegrown heirloom (I might have awarded the prizes myself) tomatoes. Before going into the blender. Umm, let’s just say an immersion blender will be on my Christmas list this year. Ahhhh… all finished. I ended up with Read More >>
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Here I am pulling up the last of the 1st planting of bush beans. The first planting yielded about 50lbs of beans. I have no idea what I was thinking when I planted a second batch. At this rate we will be eating green beans with every single meal thru winter/fall/next spring. Anyone have any Read More >>
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Holy crackers, how can this be? More free corn???? A huge apology to the neighbor who drove by our house late last night and witnessed this wee bit of enthusiasm. Who needs maracas when you have ears of corn to dance with? Quick, somebody cue the music. 30 Banjo Classics Kuhn Rikon Corn Zipper
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Mavis and the food strainer make sauce…. I love amazon.com wish lists. My MIL bought the B2B Food Strainer & Sauce Maker for me last Christmas. How did she know I wanted one? I made a wish list and she bought it. How easy is that? You would think that when you plant 63 tomato Read More >>
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Have you ever seen the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray where you are reliving the same day over and over again? I’m sure that around mid August gardeners start to feel this way. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining because I know that come January I’ll be wishing I was in the Read More >>
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I decided on potatoes for dinner tonight, so off I went to my potato patch along the back fence. I planted Purple Viking potatoes in this particular area. Not bad considering I only watered this patch twice since April. I’m sure if I had watered the potatoes I would of ended up with 10 times Read More >>
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Sweet pickles are on the canning list for today. I spy with my little eye…..corn tassels. …and baby corn growing. I cut 3 baby artichokes today. I have no idea what to do with them and no time to figure it out so I am going to drop them off at the neighbor’s house. The Read More >>
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The recipe called for 6lbs of tomatoes and since I recently awarded myself 1st place in the tomato category, I chose to use “prize-winning tomatoes” in this recipe. I also decided to play it safe and break out the swine flu pandemic kit and gear up for chopping the jalapenos. The witch hat was an Read More >>
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