What did you do in the garden today?

Here you go, I'll be making as many pints of these as I can find usable cherry tomatoes.

Pickled Cherry Tomatoes - That Recipe https://thatrecipe.com/blog/pickled-cherry-tomatoes-and-tasty-tuesdays-link-up/ 1/1 Pickled Cherry Tomatoes Pickled Cherry Tomatoes are a simple way to preserve your cherry tomato harvest. Great on sandwiches, a cheese tray and more.

Ingredients
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup white wine vinegar
½ cup white vinegar
2 cups water
1 quart cherry or grape tomatoes
2 cloves garlic
2 sprigs fresh rosemary

Instructions
1. Combine salt, vinegars and water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
2. Remove stems and wash the tomatoes. Gently prick tomato skins twice on opposite sides to prevent skin from cracking.
3. Pack tomatoes in hot sterilized jars (two pints or four 1-cup jelly). Add one half of garlic half way and the other clove on top.
4. Ladle vinegar over tomatoes to ¼ inch line. Add a rosemary sprig to each jar.
5. If sealing jars: run a knife along the inside edge of the jars to remove ALL air bubbles. Finger tighten the lid.
6. Process jars in a boiling water canner for 10 minutes starting your timer as soon as you put the jars in. Leaving them longer will cause the tomatoes to pop.
7. If you are not sealing the jars, let cool to room temperature, put on lids and store in refrigerator.

Notes makes 4 half-pint jars or two pint jars adapted from Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving Pickled Cherry Tomatoes https://thatrecipe.com/blog/pickled-cherry-tomatoes-and-tasty-tuesdays-link-up
 
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You are going to need to kill it you know.
Relocating does not work, you are giving someone else a problem. and unless you bring it MANY miles away it will just come back.

good job though they can be an sob to catch. Coons are smart, and if you do let it go, now that it was trapped, it'll probably never go back into another trap again, and when it does start killing someone elses chickens, they'll not be able to trap it like you did.

Given it's been eating fairly good, they ARE pretty tasty when cooked properly. not to mention they make good toothpicks too, so ive been told.

Aaron
 
You are going to need to kill it you know.
Relocating does not work, you are giving someone else a problem. and unless you bring it MANY miles away it will just come back.

good job though they can be an sob to catch. Coons are smart, and if you do let it go, now that it was trapped, it'll probably never go back into another trap again, and when it does start killing someone elses chickens, they'll not be able to trap it like you did.

Given it's been eating fairly good, they ARE pretty tasty when cooked properly. not to mention they make good toothpicks too, so ive been told.

Aaron
It's 45 miles away out into the country on my mom's wooded property where there are already tons of same critters.
 
It's 45 miles away out into the country on my mom's wooded property where there are already tons of same critters.
Nice job! Congrats!

Everyone has different situations and needs to make their own decisions but I choose not to kill anything unless it forces me to... This goes for every kind of chicken killing critter to even mice and snakes... I prefer to rehome them. I live in a very rural area and have numerous wilderness habitats within an hour drive where a critter will not simply become someone else's problem. At least it gives the animal a chance...
 
Nice job! Congrats!

Everyone has different situations and needs to make their own decisions but I choose not to kill anything unless it forces me to... This goes for every kind of chicken killing critter to even mice and snakes... I prefer to rehome them. I live in a very rural area and have numerous wilderness habitats within an hour drive where a critter will not simply become someone else's problem. At least it gives the animal a chance...
Yeah I knew there would be as many opinions on the subject as there are people in the world so just sharing success and leaving the rest so as not to cause conflict.
 
YAY!!!!! Congrats!

@NewBoots - those cherry tomatoes look delish! I might have to try some next year. I bet DH would love them & I'd enjoy them in a Bloody Mary for sure.

We don't kill the critters around here unless they cause trouble. We have caught & let go a million skunks this year because they don't bother us & do actually eat the grubs. We did let a raccoon go too - caught him by accident but he never caused any trouble so he's free. Now mice & chipmunks are another story, those little &(*^$($^%* have to die. Whatever works for you is good with me! My biggest concern is that dang bear...the only thing I can't keep out of my chicken set up. (*knockonwood*) I did lose a chicken to a bobcat, but that was my fault. I have seen evidence of one in the snow jumping up on my bird netting, but it immediately jumped down & didn't come back.
 
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