{"id":10574,"date":"2024-08-28T18:29:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T22:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10574"},"modified":"2024-08-28T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T22:29:59","slug":"our-tomatoes-are-ripening-quickly-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/08\/28\/our-tomatoes-are-ripening-quickly-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Our tomatoes are ripening quickly now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I’m cooking down the tomato pur\u00e9e I made by whizzing my leftover tomatoes \u2014 after saving their seeds \u2014 in the Ninja blender. I usually use my electric meat grinder to grind tomatoes for salsa. But as there are only a couple of gallons, I used the blender as it’s quick clean-up. We went out to the Wolf Garden, where our tomatoes are this year and harvested some more onions, green bell peppers, and some new-to-us yellow tomatillos, Chupon de Malinalco, from Baker Creek. I’m a new fan! Boy are they ever crisp and sweet. I put them in our salsa, along with onions, bell peppers, and a few jalape\u00f1os. Now it’s cooking down in the oven, with the door cracked open at 250 degrees F. When it gets thick, I’ll can it up. (Oh, I also added half a pint of Cowboy Candy syrup. I tried that last fall with a few half pints of salsa, and we really loved it!<\/p>\n

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Here’s our basket of goodies from the Wolf Garden, headed for salsa and our dinner tonight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While we were out there, I dug a small hill of potatoes, just to get a feel of how they did, considering how dry it’s been. We were very pleasantly surprised. There were several large potatoes, a few medium ones and some small ones. We’re very happy as we have four 100-foot rows. We can share our harvest again this year! Sarge went out with us and when we went in the gate, he suddenly started sniffing in the air and looking very concerned. I’m not sure if it was a bear, cougar, or wolf in the woods, but he was not liking it. When we went back, he was totally unconcerned. So, it must have gone away, whatever it was.<\/p>\n

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Our “guard dog” Sarge sure smelled something “dangerous” out in the woods. Now, later, he’s all fine; it’s gone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The North Garden was pretty much a bust this year. The only thing that’s doing well is the pumpkin crop. The corn got drowned out. We replanted and the wire worms got it all. (No more corn in there until they’ve given up!) and the beans I planted twice never made it. First, too much water, then none. The clay soil turned to chunky concrete. Oh well, that’s homesteading. Stuff happens and we just keep on keeping on. Last night, Will took the brush hog down there and chopped up our wonderful, three feet plus high pig weed before it matured its seed crop. Then, today, he went out and tilled it under with the Kubota and tiller. While he was out there, he pulled the two rows of bean trellises. Boy, were the T posts hard to pull by hand. I felt sorry for his back! I’ll go out in a few days and till it again to get the soil loosened up some as it’s still kind of chunky. I’m hoping we can get a big bunch of manure hauled out and tilled before winter.<\/p>\n

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Last night, Will brush hogged our massive pig weed “crop” and today tilled in the residue. Much better!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I felt sorry for Will’s back as he pulled stubborn T posts which had held our stock panel bean trellises. Ugh!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, Will’s busy hauling hay while the (supposed) rain comes our way tomorrow. We’ll see\u2026 We could sure use a good, all-night rain! \u2014 Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I’m cooking down the tomato pur\u00e9e I made by whizzing my leftover tomatoes \u2014 after saving their seeds \u2014 in the Ninja blender. I usually use my electric meat grinder to grind tomatoes for salsa. But as there are only a couple of gallons, I used the blender as it’s quick clean-up. We went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10579,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574\/revisions\/10579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}