Time for some hot sauce

improved porters finally starting to ripen...made a batch of salsa outta the first round...gonna save these and add until we can make hot sauce...takes 6 lbs...this is pertnere 3...the celebrities on the top suk this year...5 of 6 plants died...gonna grow another variety next spring (suggestions for eastx???)...but can always depend on porters...these "improved" are a hair bigger than the regular "porter"...pikt another 9 cull ears of corn (after the 14 last week) and pulled the stalks...ate 7 of the culls for dinner...hotdang, fresh corn on the cob...gonna replant this weekend to harvest in early October...dang i luv 2 garden...God is a good grower

Do Doves eat tomatoes? Half my tomatoes once they turn red will have a hole in them anywhere from dime sized to half the fruit gone. It looks like something is pecking at them. Yesterday, I spooked a dove off when I walked out there.

Field Mice and Mockingbirds. I take mine as so as they start to blush.

Mockingbirds had a party in my Tomato plants while I was out of town last week.

The cool weather and rain we had made my Tycoons blowup. I must have 20 or so tomatoes the size of a dime on 4 of my 6 plants.
I probably have over 100 tomatoes on the 6 plants. I have done tomatoes for 20 years at least and I have never had a crop like this.

I agree best year I have ever had also!

what a GR8 raised bed border...i will pass this picture on to friends who garden...thanks for sharing

crapyetr's end of June pikshurs

pikt this mo'nin'...time 4 another round of hot sauce



Porters on the right...Celebrity crop failure on the left, then cucumbers



purple hulls near blooming / 2nd crop of corn barely up on the left [harvested 23 ears on 3 rows---trying 4 rows for fall harvest]...peppers / zipper peas on the right

I always have crop failure or poor fruit set with celebrities, this year I tried the Determinate Grand Marshal and had really good success. I am going to plant another round of grand marshals along with the new yorker tomato for a fall garden.

i need a canned salsa recipe do you use citric acid,vinegar or limes

I use vinegar. My recipe makes 8 pints and I use 1/3 cup of vinegar in the recipe. I've opened up jars that have been in the pantry over a year and they were fine.

here's my wife's recipe...i always add salt to taste...

6 lbs maters Porters
2 lbs onions Texas Legends
teaspoon salt
7 cloves garlic
14 jalapenos to taste

chop / puree to desired consistency
bring to boil, put in sterilized jars, water-bath for 15 minuites

makes 8 pts +/- ... keeps till i eat'm all

Nice haul BC!