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    Peppers

    More waiting from afar. Having separation anxiety, I miss being around the patch. Dad came back today, giving it water sure makes a difference, he's been dosing it every couple of days for a couple of hours. Really the biggest change over almost a 2 week period that I've seen. Peppers have...
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    What are you canning now?

    I have a great salsa recipe for canning. My best friend's brother passed away a few years ago, and this was his recipe. Thanks Chris, really miss you. 12 cups peeled and chopped tomatoes. 2 cups roasted and chopped red bell peppers. 4 habanero peppers roasted & chopped 1 & 1/4 cups finely...
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    Peppers

    My 8 year old son and I just spent half an hour counting blossoms on those 2 potted-together chilli pepper plants. 417.
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    Paste tomatoes

    lol! We worked pretty much sunup to sundown, about 6 or 7 am till 8 or 9 pm for 8 straight days.
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    Paste tomatoes

    It was a lot of work. Though my Dad and I are keeping it up, I did all the tilling, stone/boulder removal(which was a considerable task, last year I removed about 8 or 10k lbs of all sizes and shapes rocks and boulders). My Dad's cousin has a beef farm not far and gave my dad a bucket load of...
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    Peppers

    I live in Southern Ontario, and my Dad's camp is on Manitoulin Island. I drive about 2.5 hours and take a ferry from Tobermory to the island and am left with an hour and 15 minute drive to the camp. It's a short season, we got lucky and had everything in the last week of May, which is likely a...
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    Paste tomatoes

    Thanks for the replies. I had intentions of a few different options for the tomatoes, including salsa, and making sauce. I went all out last winter and got a .5 horse power tomato squeezer, and 2 big stainless pots 60 quart and 30 quart. Have yet to get some trays etc, but also collected...
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    Peppers

    As crazy as it might sound, I am thinking of overwintering these 2 plants. We'll see how the wife feels, but these 2 are going to be awesome I think.
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    Paste tomatoes

    Anxious to see what the garden produces late this summer. I may have gone a bit overboard when I planted 80 or more tomatoes. I did a few varieties including: About 10 or 15 Big Mama's 15 or more San Marzano's 3 or 4 early girl 2 or 3 Big Boys 5 or so Better Boy Some Independence Day Some...
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    Peppers

    I planned my garden all winter, it's about 6 hours away from where I live, so I did a ton of reading and watching YouTube videos all winter and through to this day. I planted 90 or more % of my garden from seed and used our mudroom as my greenhouse, it is about 5' x 9' with an 8' x 5' window...
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