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re: 2020 Garden Thread
Posted on 6/11/20 at 8:19 pm to DumpsterFire
Posted on 6/11/20 at 8:19 pm to DumpsterFire
Did you sterilize them? If so, don't open them right away or you are just asking for bacteria to grow.
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Posted on 6/13/20 at 2:06 pm to lsuson
I did not sterilize. I just cleaned them well with soap and hot water.
Posted on 6/14/20 at 9:11 am to DumpsterFire
Finally pulled the seeds on my son’s sunflower. Going to boil and roast them later.
Posted on 6/14/20 at 2:21 pm to PillageUrVillage
This mornings pick, also had about 8 pounds of red potatoes and some garlic. I canned 21 Quarts of pickles Friday, sliced a few like three bottom pic on my mandolin. Uniform coverage on the bread and the don’t fall off like the slices! Next batch I will slice them all this way also works well if you want to dice some up for pickle relish.
This post was edited on 6/14/20 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 6/14/20 at 7:36 pm to FowlGuy
So has anyone made spaghetti sauce with your tomatoes?
I had too much to eat fresh, so i peeled a bunch and crushed them with my hands. But it comes out to be really watery, doesn’t seem like it’ll be good to make sauce out of. Maybe once it cooks down, or if i add canned paste to it.
I had too much to eat fresh, so i peeled a bunch and crushed them with my hands. But it comes out to be really watery, doesn’t seem like it’ll be good to make sauce out of. Maybe once it cooks down, or if i add canned paste to it.
Posted on 6/15/20 at 6:43 am to jyoung1
Yes I have made spaghetti sauce in the past and you’re correct it can be watery. Roma or paste tomato are grown for sauces and your steak tomatoes are for slicing but you can still use a slicing tomato for sauce. Like you mentioned, I have cooked them down a while to cook off excess water also I’ve added can paste, basil, oregano, salt pepper and garlic. My kids love it. I have 50 Piasono Roma tomato plants in my garden right now and that’s what I plan on making when they ripen.
Posted on 6/15/20 at 8:47 am to FowlGuy
Planted my first tomato plant yesterday on my apartment balcony. Based on the board's expertise, how often and how much should I water it?
Posted on 6/15/20 at 8:53 am to jyoung1
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So has anyone made spaghetti sauce with your tomatoes
We made 8 quarts of tomato/spaghetti sauce over the weekend. I just cored them and let them cook down with onions,garlic, and shallots for a couple hours to get soft. Half went into a 20 qt pot and the other half were roasted in the oven at 350 for an hour and a half. Then pureed them and ran them through a fine mesh strainer to get rid of the seeds and skin remnants. We then cooked them down low and slow overnight for 16 or so hours. At this point, we halved the recipe. One half for straight up tomato sauce, the other for spaghetti sauce. I added herbs, salt and pepper to the tomato sauce. Let it cook until everything melded. The spaghetti sauce, we added 2 green 3 red bells peppers from the garden, more onion, sauteed mushrooms, red pepper flakes. A pod of garlic from my bumper crop. Soy sauce, and Worcestershire sauce. We canned and water bathed the tomato sauce while the other sauce cooked back down then canned the spaghetti sauce the same way. Wound up with 3 quarts of tomato sauce, and 5 quarts of spaghetti sauce. Most of the tomatoes were La Roma but I did have a bit of brandywine, celebrity, and bella rosa as well. That's why it took much longer to simmer down. Due to a bleary eyed oversite in the addition of red pepper flakes, the sauce has some kick.
My tomatoes are winding down and we will use the final batch for smoked salsa since my hot peppers have started really producing.
Posted on 6/15/20 at 2:13 pm to convertedtiger
Finally have my seed planted tomatoes looking good. I tried back in the spring, and nothing would live past a few days after sprouting. I went back and planted in old cans, giving it more soil to start than those seed starters, and they took off. Transplanted the ones that lived to a long rectangular pot, and once they got larger I moved them into individual pots. Starting to see first signs of flowering, and hopefully will have some in a few weeks. I know I got a late start but we have a long growing season here so at least I'll have some for the summer.
Posted on 6/15/20 at 3:28 pm to TU Rob
Just know that high night time temps can retard flowering and fruit set.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 8:55 am to jose
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Planted my first tomato plant yesterday on my apartment balcony. Based on the board's expertise, how often and how much should I water it?
That depends on the temperature. With temps around 90, I water my plants every other day. When they get to be 100, I will water almost every day. I don't get too scientific with the amount I water. As long as they get a good drink, then they should be fine.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 9:35 am to DumpsterFire
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That depends on the temperature. With temps around 90, I water my plants every other day. When they get to be 100, I will water almost every day. I don't get too scientific with the amount I water. As long as they get a good drink, then they should be fine.
I check mine every day, and if the soil doesn't look damp I water them. I have larger pots with drain holes, and if they do get watered every day some will drain out at the bottom. I'm just watering with a pitcher since they're on my upper deck, but in the past I would use the hose and a sprayer attachment. Doesn't take much time or water using the hose, just wet the soil and don't overwater them.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 1:21 pm to TU Rob
Cucumber Question:
Noticed that on about 90% of my new, inch long cucumbers it looks like the end is nibbled off. Seems that they then end up wilting away soon afterwards as well. (Realize a picture would help but Imgur isn't working for me)
Is this the local rabbit? Or do I have some sort of strange disease on my hands?
Haven't caught the rabbit(s) in the act so not entirely sure it's them.
Noticed that on about 90% of my new, inch long cucumbers it looks like the end is nibbled off. Seems that they then end up wilting away soon afterwards as well. (Realize a picture would help but Imgur isn't working for me)
Is this the local rabbit? Or do I have some sort of strange disease on my hands?
Haven't caught the rabbit(s) in the act so not entirely sure it's them.
This post was edited on 6/16/20 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 6/16/20 at 3:26 pm to jose
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Planted my first tomato plant yesterday on my apartment balcony. Based on the board's expertise, how often and how much should I water it?
If you live anywhere in the Deep South, you’re 3 months too late, and your plant will likely never make fruit. You could possibly nurse it through the summer and make a fall crop.
If nighttime temps don’t drop below 70 degrees, most varieties won’t fruit.
Some cherry varieties can make all summer. If it’s in a container you need to water EVERY day... if not twice.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 5:31 pm to BlackCoffeeKid
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it looks like the end is nibbled off
Likely a rabbit. We had one. Take a look around for droppings.
Turns out, we had an owl around as well. Long story short, haven't had rabbit droppings in about a month.
Posted on 6/17/20 at 8:07 am to GusMcRae
Suggestion for South La of when to plant tomato seeds for a fall crop?
Ive had a pretty good spring crop and would like to see if I could get a fall one in.
Ive had a pretty good spring crop and would like to see if I could get a fall one in.
Posted on 6/17/20 at 9:43 am to chuckitdeep
I would sow indoors in August. Harden outside in September and you should have a decent crop in early November
Posted on 6/17/20 at 10:33 am to chuckitdeep
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Suggestion for South La of when to plant tomato seeds for a fall crop? Ive had a pretty good spring crop and would like to see if I could get a fall one in.
On the previous page.
LINK
Posted on 6/18/20 at 7:21 am to GusMcRae
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If you live anywhere in the Deep South, you’re 3 months too late, and your plant will likely never make fruit. You could possibly nurse it through the summer and make a fall crop.
shite I'm okay with that. I just don't want to see it die
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:20 am to jose
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I just don't want to see it die
You will have to watch it like a hawk. The heat and humidity are murder for tomatoes. Pests and diseases will be another hurdle. Now, I have seen some put sail cloth type canopies over their tomatoes during the heat of summer to help them out with some success. Something that lets most of the light in but gives some shade and relief from living near the Devil's butthole in our South Louisiana summers. I have always just whacked all mine down and replanted for fall but it may be an interesting experiment.
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