This awesome green tomato curry sauce canning recipe comes from my sweet friend Jane. She found it in the book Preserving for All Seasons By Anne Gordon. I LOVE curry. So when I first read the ingredient list over a decade ago, I knew instantly I wanted to give it a try. And holy cow, Read More >>
12 Ways to Use Up and Preserve Fresh Tomatoes
It seems like whether you like to tomatoes or not, every gardener grows at one tomato plant. It’s like the cardinal rule of gardening. No one knows why. It just is. If you DO like them, it kind of makes it a little more worth your time, but to each their own. The thing about tomato Read More >>
How to Ripen Green Tomatoes
Now that the weather is getting colder, those last tomatoes still hanging on the vine may need an intervention if you want them to ripen. Then again, you may have all sorts of recipes for green tomatoes, but if not, you can try a couple of these methods to squeeze the most out of your Read More >>
Mavis Garden Blog – What Do You Do With Green Tomatoes?
Yesterday while I was cleaning out the greenhouse, I picked all the green tomatoes off the withering plants before I heaved them on to the compost pile. And then I decided to rip 8 tomato plants out of one of the garden boxes. I couldn’t take it anymore. The little OCD monkeys in my head Read More >>
Mavis Garden Blog – 5 Tips for Ripening Tomatoes on the Vine
A big thank you to Sarah B who alerted me to a recent newspaper article by Cisco Morris on my heirloom tomato picture post yesterday. I don’t know what your tomato crop looks like these days, but my tomatoes are mostly green. Since I am trying to grow 2,000 pounds of food in my backyard Read More >>