Tag Archives: Tomatoes

Tomatoes and Basil

Thursday, September 24, 2009 – 3:20 pm

I harvested over 2lbs of stupice and cherry roma tomatoes from my garden this morning as well as the last bit of basil. I still have 8oz of stupice from the other day too. I am going to have to graduate from simply throwing them in our salads. I think I am going to try [...]

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Rainbows and Watermelon

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 – 11:30 am

We always know when summer is coming to an end in our area. The warm weather goes to battle with the increasing cold fronts and one day can be 90°F and the next barely pass 60°F. Last night dropped to 42°F and some of the outlaying areas even had freezing fog. On Friday I ordered [...]

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Vintage Countryside

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 – 8:56 am

My Grandma Mason recently sent me a couple Countryside magazines from when she was focused on homesteading. I love them, enough so that I am considering subscribing, as the magazine is still around. Even though the information in these two is older then me, I still find it relevant and am amazed by how what [...]

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Garden Update

Thursday, August 13, 2009 – 10:46 am

The tomatoes have started rolling in. I harvested a bowl of Stupice and Cherry Romas this morning and it looks like my Amish Paste will be the next to start ripening. Keep in mind they are all inderterminate plants though so they will produce until the frost offs them. I am going to have so [...]

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Learning As I Grow

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 – 10:54 am

I have six crops left in my raised beds right now. Tomatoes, pumpkins, green beans, ground cherries, zucchini and sunflowers (do sunflowers count? I am saving their seeds after all…) The photos above are my quickly ripening cherry romas and stupice. My tomatoes are doing so beautifully this year. They are so heavy with fruit. [...]

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