Gardening

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[–] tty5@lemmy.world [S] 6 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I don't sell any. What we don't eat gets canned

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[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Holy wow. I’m curious about the tomatoes, do you can them for sauce? I used to freeze mine with decent results.

I started making sun dried tomatoes and store them in olive oil, however I also am planting more tomatoes than last year so any suggestions/tips you’d like to share :)

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[–] tty5@lemmy.world [S] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

With tomatoes as primary ingredient we make:

passata
pizza sauces
pasta sauces
salsas / nacho dips
sun dried

and they are added to a bunch of other things - e.g. some of the pickles

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[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

I would love to see your process, do you stream, at all?

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[–] tty5@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 7 months ago

full time job + garden + restoring the house I live in.. there aren't enough hours in the day

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[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

Thanks for your answer, and kudos to you and yours for such an immense and important project! I am working towards that goal myself and am in full absorption mode, nothing better than hearing what others are doing and learning all I can.

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[–] tty5@lemmy.world [S] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's a process and every year you see an improvement over the previous one.

5 years ago I've had a meadow that was slowly overgrowing with trees and some old, mostly dead fruit trees that look like from a horror movie around the house.

With just me an my wife working on it we got to half an acre of a garden, a greenhouse, tiny vineyard (if you can call 20 plants that), 50-60 fruit trees and bushes. I intend to add beehives and a chicken coop before summer.