How big is your garden and how many tomato plants?

[jinman]

Anybody try pickled green tomatoes? I tried a recipe I found on the internet and love 'em. I don't can them but make "refrigerator" pickles; I find canned stuff just too mushy to enjoy. Obviously I must store them in the 'fridge, but I just enjoyed my last jar (2012 season) a month or so ago. A good way to store excess production for future enjoyment.

I love refrigerator pickles, but I found out you could use green tomatoes to make salsa verde (green sauce) instead of tomatillos. This year, I'm gonna try to pick all my green tomatoes before frost and make up a big batch of salsa verde and freeze it. My red salsa is great if thawed and eaten right away. You have to add vinegar and/or lemon/lime juice to the mix to keep bacteria under control, but I really like lemon in my salsa and guacamole. Has anyone ever tried freezing their own guacamole? I may try that sometime when avocados are selling cheaply.

 

[Jstpssng]

Anybody try pickled green tomatoes? I tried a recipe I found on the internet and love 'em. I don't can them but make "refrigerator" pickles; I find canned stuff just too mushy to enjoy. Obviously I must store them in the 'fridge, but I just enjoyed my last jar (2012 season) a month or so ago. A good way to store excess production for future enjoyment.

Not pickles, but my mother still makes green tomato relish. After using it all the time while growing up, even 35 years later I still find the store bought relish to be sickeningly sweet.

 

[sseelhoff]

Fresh tomatoes out of our garden are AWESOME this year. Just picked a few and ate one.

 

[Gunny]

Very admirable effort to help the old and infirm.

Hey, I'm one of the old and infirm! Just kidding, I'm slightly over 60 and there are a lot of seniors down there in their high 80s. It's not a big deal to pick a peck or so of tomatoes, the senior center is right on the way into town and they all seem to appreciate it so much. Every time, several ask for a tomato before I make it back to the kitchen. When I come out, they're all sitting in their chairs with a paper towel and salt shaker, going to town! That's always a feel good minute.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Any garden updates...?


We have a lot of rain from the gulf storm heading our way. Rain has been 3-4" at a time when we get it and standing in the field. I am concerned about some of the tomatoes that have set fruit getting blossom end rot. I have 100# of calcium and would like to put some around the plants but the rain is scheduled to start tomorrow so I don't think it would have time to get to the roots.

Will be planting pumpkins in the next couple of weeks. Try to take some pics.

 

[DFB]

Haha just mowed my lawn before it rains here again.... starting tomorrow and all thru the weekend. Just replanted 2 types of green beans today all the seed rotted in the ground with the 5 inches of rain we had last week

Tomatoes and peppers look ok though started growing and greening up after last weeks frost and wind damages. Was only 42F this morning too!

 

[wyeguy]

Finally got 46 tomato plants in the garden last evening. After 6" of rain last week, had to wait for it to dry out a bit. Just as I got back up to the house last night, it started raining. Now I'll have to wait to put in the pepper plants I was going to work on today. Glad for an occasional shower, though.
Onions are doing great, but have a bunch more vegetables to plant.

 

[clemsonfor]

My grandmother use to make spicky green tomatoe pikle things for lack of a better term., THey were sliced and put in there. They were canned in jars and not mushy really.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

We don't can green tomatoes but my wife makes chow chow relish. It used green tomatoes, onions, peppers, cabbage, and spices. It is kind of picketed... I know it will make your eyes water if your in the house while she is canning. It is great with beans and cornbread:licking:

 

[Gunny]

Anybody else like fried green tomatoes? I like to fix them several times a year, especially when cooking outdoors, really good and makes an interesting side dish.