Tag Archives: Gardening

Giant Tomato

Attack of the Killer Tomato Plants?

2015 has been the year of the Tomato for us.  Due to the extremely long winter and busy sugaring season thanks to our new vacuum pump on the maple lines, I got a late start on seed starting and ended up buying a sampler of six tomato transplants from Seed Savers Exchange.  We did have […]

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Zesty Salsa

Zesty Salsa

I found a recipe on the Ball canning website called Zesty Salsa and I was intrigued.  It involved water bath canning, which I was thinking about trying this year, and it also had a smaller half batch recipe that I liked.  I am not keen on making huge vats of anything for the first time, so […]

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Homemade tomato sauce

Homemade Garden Sauce

My husband came home from helping his brother in Maine talking about a fantastic tomato sauce that Casey from Friends of Willow made them for dinner.  Bill does not like red sauce, so I knew I had to get the recipe from Casey.  It turns out that she makes her own sauce without a recipe, […]

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