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How those 'Maters looking?

  • Apple
    This year we only put in a couple tomato plants and they're finally ripening. We'll be planting more next year.

    The GF eats the cherry ones like candy! She can have them all for herself. I'm not a fan of eating them right off the vine but I'll admit that fresh ones taste great in salsa, chili and spaghetti sauce.

    Anyone else getting getting some nice maters these days?

    Our jalapeno peppers are doing great too. We'll be having some awesome chili this football season!
  • Steel Valley Football
    Got a few from the plants out back but nothing of any size. I love BIG maters!
  • Devils Advocate
    If you growing pumpkins and making pies fron scratch, I would be impressed.
  • Steel Valley Football
    Devils Advocate;1247337 wrote:If you growing pumpkins and making pies fron scratch, I would be impressed.
    *r'e

    *m
  • Devils Advocate
    Steel Valley Football;1247338 wrote:*r'e

    *m
    As in you're Momma?
  • 4cards
    Apple;1247321 wrote:This year we only put in a couple tomato plants and they're finally ripening. We'll be planting more next year.

    The GF eats the cherry ones like candy! She can have them all for herself. I'm not a fan of eating them right off the vine but I'll admit that fresh ones taste great in salsa, chili and spaghetti sauce.

    Anyone else getting getting some nice maters these days?

    Our jalapeno peppers are doing great too. We'll be having some awesome chili this football season!
    ...my father-in-law brought over some from his garden and they were good size & taste excellent!
  • Steel Valley Football
    Devils Advocate;1247365 wrote:As in you're Momma?

    *mama
  • Cher
    Steel Valley Football;1247338 wrote:*r'e

    *m
    your'e?
  • Steel Valley Football
    Cher;1247378 wrote:your'e?

    Thank you. I stand corrected, collected, and connected.
  • Belly35
    I plant five different types of tomatoes and also small yellow pear tomatoes (like cherry but yellow).

    We've canned 25 quart of tomatoes sauce already, estimating another 20 quarts by end of season and 10 quarts of Hungarian Yellow Hot Peppers (pickled those puppies), 10 quarts of Beets, 20 loaves of Zucchini Bread&#8230;. Green beans, cucumbers, red yellow and green peppers will be ready in a week also onions. It been a good year for the garden next year we are going to stager the planting so everything does come in at the same time&#8230; </SPAN>

  • said_aouita
  • Belly35
    said_aouita;1247508 wrote:
    Looks good but nothing compares to out of the garden freshness... and taste

    You wouldn't know about taste you eat fast mofo :D rest my case, point proven ... :D
  • said_aouita
    ccrunner609;1247512 wrote:the only reason why I grow maters is I mix my mary jane plants in with them. harder to notice.

    reps. Any buds popping yet? Tell your brother "high" for me.
  • Steel Valley Football
    ccrunner609;1247512 wrote:the only reason why I grow maters is I mix my mary jane plants in with them. harder to notice.
    Why is that?
  • mcburg93
    Our garden got a little huge this year tons of tomatoes and just about everything else. I am so sick of canning we have enough to last us a few years now I am guessing.
  • THE4RINGZ
    Not tomatoes but we had a bumper crop of our early season peppers. I canned some this past Sunday. These will taste good on a winter's Sunday afternoon.

  • Apple
    THE4RINGZ;1247652 wrote:Not tomatoes but we had a bumper crop of our early season peppers. I canned some this past Sunday. These will taste good on a winter's Sunday afternoon.
    Do you can those with water or do you pickle them?
  • Belly35
    THE4RINGZ;1247652 wrote:Not tomatoes but we had a bumper crop of our early season peppers. I canned some this past Sunday. These will taste good on a winter's Sunday afternoon.
    Looks great... are those pickled.... I pickled my Hungarian Hot Peppers to cut back on the heat ...
  • THE4RINGZ
    Apple;1247739 wrote:Do you can those with water or do you pickle them?

    I canned a combination of Italian yellow peppers, serrano peppers and jalepano peppers and some baby carrots for color.

    To the jar I add 1/2 white vinegar, 1/4 cup simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water boiled until the sugar dissolves) and fill the rest of the jar with boiling water. I then can them in a water bath, usually boil the peppers in the jars for about 10 minutes until they seal.
  • Enforcer
    Veggies are looking Great, cant say the same for the Apples and Grapes though
  • Steel Valley Football
    ccrunner609;1247512 wrote:the only reason why I grow maters is I mix my mary jane plants in with them. harder to notice.
    You never answered my question, why did you hide them in a tomato plant?
  • I Wear Pants
    Belly35;1247515 wrote:Looks good but nothing compares to out of the garden freshness... and taste

    You wouldn't know about taste you eat fast mofo :D rest my case, point proven ... :D
    We actually agree here. Although you can grow tasteless tomatoes at home as well. If you're buying tomatoes heirloom is the only way to go.
  • Belly35
    THE4RINGZ;1248034 wrote:I canned a combination of Italian yellow peppers, serrano peppers and jalepano peppers and some baby carrots for color.

    To the jar I add 1/2 white vinegar, 1/4 cup simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water boiled until the sugar dissolves) and fill the rest of the jar with boiling water. I then can them in a water bath, usually boil the peppers in the jars for about 10 minutes until they seal.
    Qestion: Why not boil the vinger, sugar and water combo and pour into the hot (sanitized, out of the dish washer) jars and seal the jar with hot lids? Let them set and lids pop?

    That we do.. each to there own.


    I found that if you soak the hot peppers in straight vinger for a few hours it takes some of the heat out of the peppers ....
  • THE4RINGZ
    Belly35;1248208 wrote:Qestion: Why not boil the vinger, sugar and water combo and pour into the hot (sanitized, out of the dish water) jars and seal the jar with hot lids? Let them set and lids pop?

    That we do.. each to there own.


    I found that if you soak the hot peppers in straight vinger for a few hours it takes some of the heat out of the peppers ....

    I have never heard of that method of canning. I might try it next time, sounds a whole lot easier than the way I do it. Thanks for the tip.
  • GoChiefs
    THE4RINGZ;1248212 wrote:I have never heard of that method of canning. I might try it next time, sounds a whole lot easier than the way I do it. Thanks for the tip.

    It is much easier, and quicker.