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BReeder! said:
I might not grow cukes next year for the same reason you will not grow zukes. I have roughly 60 qts of pickles. I will not need to make pickles next year as these will last me two years I'm sure. I might just grow a few straight eight cuke plants next year for fresh eating in salads and such. Any extra next year will be given away or turned into chips I think (if I like them as I am just now working on a batch of pickle chips for the first time). I also will not grow corn again. I'm sick of the squirrels getting it.
I'm going to grow more pumpkins, garlic and parsnips next year. I think I'm going to grow more tomatoes even though I had 48 plants this year. I like my sauce and salsa and I like them thick. It's amazing how I can turn 4 trays of tomatoes (filling my oven completely) into just 8 pints of salsa. It's darn good though. I just need more. I'd also like more flowers, as I've really enjoyed having the marigolds and sunflowers this year. I was supposed to have two long, narrow flower beds along the garden fence this year, but I didn't get them developed. I'm now killing the grass where the flowers will go next year, but I also have a bunch of firewood stacked on top of the weed fabric I'm using to smother the grass, so I'll need to find a new home for all that wood come Spring if I'm going to plant flowers there.
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I use a victorio food mill with my tomatoes. It seperates the juice and the tomato bits from the peels and cores. Then I just boil it down to the right consistency. No blanching or peeling. Love that thing
 
Ninjasquirrel said:
I use a victorio food mill with my tomatoes. It seperates the juice and the tomato bits from the peels and cores. Then I just boil it down to the right consistency. No blanching or peeling. Love that thing
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Sounds nice... does it really just leave the skins and cores? Have a pic of the waste product by chance?
 
WthrLady said:
My kitchenaid does, and it's the same design as the victorio, just a different power source. I don't have a photo, just because when I'm done for the day I toss the waste to the hens, but yes, it's a tube of skin seeds and core. I swear I have a photo, I'm looking.
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I dont give it to the chickens since tomatoes are a nightshade. I just throw it in the compost
 
jerryse said:
Native sun chokes . View attachment 2820492
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OMG thank you for this! I have some growing here & had no idea what it was. DH always weed whacks it. :he

I think I'm about to lose another chicken. Grrr. She's having laying issues. I gave her calcium last night & left her at dark in the nest box, she looks the same today. Got another calcium in her. I will NEVER get RSL chickens again - I've lost 5 out of 8 so far & only 1 made it close to 3 years old before I lost her. That's no life. :(

Beef broth is still cooking, smells delish. Picked 6 yellow squash last night & had tomato tarts for dinner. I think that may have been my last brandywine - they're are more on the vine but they're small so I'm not sure they'll do anything with this cool weather.
 

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