our harvest before frost hits

larry@stinescorner · Oct 10, 2010

made a quick trip to pa saturday afternoon to pick a few red tomatoes, a lot of green tomatoes, some nice peppers, some radishes and some turnips. We are in the procees of doing some canning now. Hope to send some pictures of our full jars tomorrow.

Dblair · Oct 10, 2010

are you going to have those green tomatoes fried with eggs in the morning ?

larry@stinescorner · Oct 10, 2010

no.but we do have a batch in a 4 galloan crock on the counter , not ready to eat yet they have to sit awhile We also made some green tomato relish.

Tony Vidlak Sr. · Oct 10, 2010

Hi Larry, Your harvest looks great as always.
Hows your medical outlook looking ?Just wondering
Tony

larry@stinescorner · Oct 10, 2010

thanks for asking, Iam taking medicine and I go for one more test this friday afternoon,.

PJH · Oct 10, 2010

Nice harvest!

We've already had a frost here in Southern Illinois - wiped out my south garden, but the north one (near the house) survived. Still have some living tomatoes, cukes, peppers, and of course some turnips. Won't be long and they'll bite the dust too (all but the turnips).

Wrap those green tomatoes in newspaper, and put them in a cardboard box. In a few weeks, you'll have red tomatoes to eat.

Paul

TerryB IL · Oct 11, 2010

Paul,

What part of southern Illinois are you from?
I am just south of Carbondale.

Allan in NE · Oct 11, 2010

Stop it!

Yer makin' me hungry! :>)

Allan

Allan in NE · Oct 11, 2010

Stop it!

Yer makin' me hungry! :>)

Allan

Mike (WA) · Oct 11, 2010

My tomatoes were kind of gettin' ahead of me, and I usually cook up all the ripe ones (we only have 2 plants) and make a good chili, just before the first frost.

Wife's friend gave her a bunch of chili- good enough flavor, but not nearly enough liquid- kind of like a brick of beans and meat. So I boiled up the tomatoes, added onions and peppers, then threw in the chili brick and some more spices, and it ended up "just right".

I usually have a lot of green ones left on the plant, and so bring the plants into the garage and hang them upside down, and get more ripening through the fall. But this year was so cold and wet they didn't keep setting, so there aren't many left. I got a fried green tomato recipe off the internet and will give that a try.

PJH · Oct 11, 2010

Terry, I live a couple miles west of Ava.

Paul

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