Gardening: Veggies and Flowers 2012

[Lady tehMa]

My indeterminate tomatoes are still producing beautifully, and rival the brandywines for flavour. I have to thank the person I got them from again (and again and again . . .)

[Queen K]

We're so busy I can't even get to the garden right now. But I did reach the keyboard

[Lady tehMa]

I harvested a large box of tomatoes, now have 12 quarts canned. I think this weekend I'll can winter salad (basically pickled coleslaw)

[Sige]

I harvested a large box of tomatoes, now have 12 quarts canned. I think this weekend I'll can winter salad (basically pickled coleslaw)

Mmmmm I've never heard of this, but it sounds delicious! Recipe please!!

[Lady tehMa]

Mmmmm I've never heard of this, but it sounds delicious! Recipe please!!

Okay Sige

Syrup: 1 quart vinegar (heinz pickling vinegar is best), 5 cups sugar, 1 tbsp celery seed, 1 tbsp mustard seed. Cook the syrup up, and let cool (doesn't have to be cold, but safer to work with if it isn't boiling).

Chop or shred the following into a large bowl:
3 cabbages, 6 long carrots, 6 large onions, 1 red & 1 green pepper. Cover with cold water 1/2 cup coarse salt and let stand 3 hours. Drain well. When drained, pack into jars (really mash it in there, I find a wooden spoon to be a good tool for that) and cover with syrup, leaving standard headspace (half inch or so). Cap with rings & seals. Process in a canner for about 15 minutes and then let cool. I think it needs to sit about 6 weeks before they're ready.

If your cabbages are big you'll need to add more of the other veggies and cook up more syrup. It makes roughly 10 quarts, but because veggies aren't standard sizes you never know.

Hope they turn out for you, I love it with beef dip type sandwiches . . .

[Queen K]

Thanks for that, could we uh, "sample" sometime to see if we want to make a wack of it? Pretty please?

When you sample our homemade HP sauce, I think you'll want that recipe soon

[Lady tehMa]

Thanks for that, could we uh, "sample" sometime to see if we want to make a wack of it? Pretty please?

When you sample our homemade HP sauce, I think you'll want that recipe soon

I would let you sample, except we're all out and have been since May or so I will have to try your HP sauce

[Fixer 166]

I've got the biggest sunflower
17 feet tall with a head diameter of a solid 16 inches.

[Queen K]

Awesome Fixer,

We've had multiple birds in our sunflowers all weekend.
Last of the flowers in the wheelbarrow gardens are still blooming but today I do yard clean up big time.

[Lady tehMa]

Wow Fix, bet that would have won at the IPE!

Garden cleanup is tomorrow for me. Today is food prep and turkey coma.

Swiss chard and kale are still going strong, today I harvest and preserve some.

[Glacier]

I've got the biggest sunflower
17 feet tall with a head diameter of a solid 16 inches.

Wow, and I thought my sunflowers were impressive measuring in at 9 ft. tall with 12 inch heads!

[Fixer 166]

I think it was all that pure Alberta sunshine.

[1nick]

I've got tonnes of tomatoes,can I just give them a wash then throw them in freezer bags?
Just want to use them in sauces over the winter.

[oneh2obabe]

I've got tonnes of tomatoes,can I just give them a wash then throw them in freezer bags?

Yes you can. Put tomatoes in resealable plastic bags, suck excess air out (use a straw to do this), seal, and freeze. There is no need to peel the tomatoes - the skins will slip right off after being frozen. Use the frozen tomatoes in any recipe that cooks fresh tomatoes.

[1nick]

Thnx H20
PM me if you want some.