Dug up 20-30 lbs of potatoes. I'm eyeballing the weight. It's a plastic produce crate mostly full. I have just 1 now row to dig up still, which should have just as many potatoes.
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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 thingI 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.
Sounds nice... does it really just leave the skins and cores? Have a pic of the waste product by chance?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
I do not but I have to can tomorrow I'll try and get oneSounds nice... does it really just leave the skins and cores? Have a pic of the waste product by chance?
I dont give it to the chickens since tomatoes are a nightshade. I just throw it in the compostMy 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.
I dont give it to the chickens since tomatoes are a nightshade. I just throw it in the compost
OMG thank you for this! I have some growing here & had no idea what it was. DH always weed whacks it.Native sun chokes . View attachment 2820492