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[siege]

Great post, thanks for sharing. I have some tomatoes that will be ripe soon, and I'll try your method, if I can manage to keep some. Seems my daughter and her husband enjoy fried green tomatoes, and raid my little bucket garden every week.

 

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I have a deck just outside my kitchen. The smoker, grill, a propane 1 burner for my discada, and 2' x 3' flat top on the deck let me enjoy cooking outside. The bucket garden out there is just a row of white, food grade plastic buckets that I grow my salsa garden in. I usually grow 4 varieties of peppers, grape tomatoes, Roma's, and some beefsteaks. A little cilantro, oregano, and rosemary round out the garden. I just water with the hose, and I'm done in 5 minutes. I sprinkle some Cayenne once a week, and voila, no bugs eating my little crop.

 

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[bmaddox]

Looks like I need to make friends with some local farmers to get the "scratch and dent" specials. 

 

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[jcollins]

 
I also cheat and bring them chocolates, made from their fruits, nuts, herbs, etc... 

...makes them much more likely to offer deals and discounts... 

 

i dont call that cheating..... more like.... wise investments lol

 

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[okie362]

I don't know about cheating.  Around here we call it swappin work! 

 

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[muralboy]

Great job and great pictures.  That's the beauty of produce, once it is "processed/prepared" nobody is the wiser as to what it looked liked going into the pot.  I remember as a youngin my grandma making applesauce.  She would boil the apples whole, through them into a food mill stems, cores, worm holes and all - she didn't.  End result was alway delicious.

I'm curious how it would work if you smoked some of the tomatoes before jarring?  Would the smoke flavor become too overpowering over time?  But it would make for a great gift to your farmer friend - perhaps something they may not have had before.

 

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