I’m trying something different this year. I’m dehydrating my small tomatoes instead of juicing them. I haven’t used many dehydrated tomatoes in the past but as I try to eat a bit more healthily I find more recipes calling for sun dried tomatoes so I thought, ‘Why not make my own this year?’
Are you using a dehydrator, or air?
I have a question for you on the walking onions. So they got planted last fall, are big and boisterous now, the tops look like they're growing new ones! Do you cut those off and plant them? When do you harvest the part that is in the ground?
Was just reading they are very evasive in Ohio & banned in Indiana, so I guess it can survive there if it is Lonicera japonica, which it does look like..
Should be great in a pot on the deck..
One use of a wild hog. Spam
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Good stuff. We have so many of these things that I’ve looked for more creative ways to use them. This is one of them.
I just love your posts, and how you show us how to do things and how you know the old ways. Very impressive!
Thank you. I just got back from a birthday dinner /party for my cousin. He turned 70 today. I have some of the seeds from the Indian peaches drying for you. You can pm where you’d like them sent. I canned 17 pints today and made a lower card/cal cobbler out of some. I have canned and dehydrated all the tomatoes I can use this year and have been giving the bulk of the rest away. Gotta go back to work Monday...my real job, so my gardening will take a back seat to Math and baseball. I’m retired but will be teaching half days. My son, though, will keep me following him and that little round ball everywhere.
I’ve thought about checking into teaching some classes at the Tech Center on gardening and preserving. As much as I like to teach I think it’d be fun. I may wait until my boy graduates and do just that.
Thank you. I just got back from a birthday dinner /party for my cousin. He turned 70 today. I have some of the seeds from the Indian peaches drying for you. You can pm where you’d like them sent. I canned 17 pints today and made a lower card/cal cobbler out of some. I have canned and dehydrated all the tomatoes I can use this year and have been giving the bulk of the rest away. Gotta go back to work Monday...my real job, so my gardening will take a back seat to Math and baseball. I’m retired but will be teaching half days. My son, though, will keep me following him and that little round ball everywhere.
I’ve thought about checking into teaching some classes at the Tech Center on gardening and preserving. As much as I like to teach I think it’d be fun. I may wait until my boy graduates and do just that.
Reviving this old thread. Just tilled the garden a couple of weeks ago. Hoping for a late winter or early spring snow to fall on it. That does it so much good. Will be putting out onions and cabbage in a couple of weeks.
Wow, can't even imagine! We've got over two feet of snow on the ground, heading for a high of 9F on Wednesday. It must be lovely there! Are the trees budding yet?
Yes ma’am, the elm trees are starting to bud. We still have cool days ahead. But last Sunday was 72 degrees. Highs this week are supposed to be in the 40’s. But planting time here often coincides with Valentine’s Day.
Incredible! I'm a little envious, but then you have those summers. No thanks!
Reviving this old thread. Just tilled the garden a couple of weeks ago. Hoping for a late winter or early spring snow to fall on it. That does it so much good. Will be putting out onions and cabbage in a couple of weeks.