Can you do a how to on this??? I usually make sundried out of my extras, and can salsa, veg soup, and spag. sauce, but this sounds yummy.
I have a large garden- 50x100 or so, -and the tomatos have been in for a week, along with beans and corn and peppers.... Been picking a 2 gallon bucket full of asparagus every morning for a few weeks, bumper crop this year. Had my first strawberry this morning.
I made my own tomato cages out of field fence, if you use the graduated type it gives them more support low when they are young. I used to use T-posts weaved thru them to support them, as my plants get so heavy and big, but put in a fence the length of the garden, and now I just tie wrap the cages to the fence, no more pounding in of stakes...
happy gardening!
Take a cookie sheet and coat with a little olive oil. Chop up the tomatoes...fine or coarse- doesn't matter- and place on the sheet until it's covered but only one layer. Pour on more olive oil along with your favorite seasoning- we usually go for the garlic salt and oregano. Roast on the grill (or in the oven) until the tomatoes are liquefying and beginning to crisp up a bit. Some of the tomatoes may char a bit but that adds flavor...let it cool then pour it into a freezer bag, and don't forget to scrape whatever is stuck to the pan into the bag, as well. Freeze, then enjoy when the snow flies
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I love fresh asparagus almost as much as tomatoes. My asparagus patch in MA was just 5 years old and really maturing well when we sold the house and move south...didn't fill up a bucket every day but let's just say my asparagus craving (and my neighbor's) was more then satisfied for about 6 weeks every spring. Unfortunately, asparagus doesn't grow as well here
as it does up north and I just don't have the space to try here.
As far as keeping the tomatoes off the ground, I've got every apparatus known to tomato gardening mankind being utilized at the moment- cages, field fencing, wooden and metal stakes, etc. My yard's topography presents certain challenges in this regard so I have to use what works best in a given space... and invariably we have some failures by mid summer
....reminds me of bonsai in some ways
- it's as much the journey as the finish.
Judy, let's see some pictures of your garden some time- I'm sure it'll make me jealous.