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I think it is because they are fresher..and dug up when they are ready and not on a growers schedule....But that is just me.
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I agree with you both about the potatoes. My garden is still going strong. Brought in cucumbers, tomatoes, and okra today. If I can get myself together tomorrow there are 5 or 6 eggplants ready to be pulled that I'll take to a friend.
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It is stifling hot out there. I went into the garden today but didn't bring anything in. It's just too hot to do any work. I'll try and get out there early enough to beat the heat tomorrow. The garden is full of veges.
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Good for you, Sheri. Now you are making me hungry for fresh veggies. Yum !
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Sheri, I can send you some coldness. GG and I dug all our potatoes yesterday.....I now have to cover my tomatoes and peppers every night due to frost.
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How many potatoes did you get Sunny ? I am so envious. When you store them do not like them on one another. I stored mine in soda boxes, that I laid newspaper in. Then I did not allow one potato to touch another one. That way if one potato went bad it would not progress to the next. Mind you the whole cellar was filled with boxes, but so what ?
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I set them out to dry on the floor of the shed...then I'll put them in old oat/grain bags(they are breathable). I probably got over 100 pounds for sure. I just got in from picking the tomatoes...I'll put them in a card box with a banana to ripen. I'll have to can them because I got a 5 gallon pail full. The frost is getting the best of us so I'll just have to cover the peppers for another week before I harvest them as well.
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A hundred pounds. WOW, good for you.
Also you could freeze prepared mashed potaties, right ???
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I know a lady who cubes and blanches potatoes then freezes them. She fries them up and say they're just fine. We need a little cool. Over 100 again today.
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I bet they would work in stews and soups as well.
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I bet so. She's very happy with the way they turned out. I figured they'd be mushy but she says nope.
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That is very good to know, Sheri. Thank you so much for sharing that info with us.
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I make GG little bottles of chicken soup for school. They freeze well and the potatoes hold their shape...so I guess blanching them makes sense as well. Thanks for the reminder Sheri.
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Wow Sunny. Homemade chicken soup for school. Talk about impressive.
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Now I want homemade chicken soup......
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When Colt first started school he took a peanut butter sandwich every single day. He's the kind of person who eats one thing until he's sick of it, then moves to something else, never to eat the other thing again. The friend he ate lunch with was diagnosed with a peanut allergy so he had to start sitting at the no peanut table. Colt came home and told his mother he never wanted a peanut butter sandwich again so he could sit with his friend, and that he wanted to start taking frankfurters . Since that day, even though they've moved and he no longer sits with that friend, he takes 2 all beef franks wrapped in foil that his teacher warms in the microwave.
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Bless his teacher. I trust Colt knows how lucky he is, right?
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GG is spoiled. Since it is such a small school, they have 3 microwaves for children to use and heat up their lunch....a teacher supervises. There are no nuts of any kind allowed at her school, there are two children with deadly nut allergies...GB's daycare is the same, with one child though.
The only thing left in my garden now is my carrots.
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Sunny, your GG is lucky too...our kids were never that lucky.
I have a handful of cherry tomatoes, but I am afraid to eat them...I have no idea where my SIL sprayed for spiders. Thing is my sage and chives are there as well. I was so looking forward to drying them. But oh well, too bad for Carol.
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At one school it was an older student who was in charge of helping the little ones so he warmed Colt's franks but I think he's old enough to do it on his own now. I cut okra today, brought in tomatoes, only got 1 cucumber but there are lots of flowers still out there. Thankfully we got a little rain yesterday. I might have seen the tip top of a beet green. I thought the heat had murdered them all now I'm not sure.
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The carrots were pulled yesterday...my garden is empty.
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What will you do with the okra, Sheri ? Is there a way to keep it for winter ?I
Sunny, what will you do with the carrots ?
All I have been able to put up this year is 2 gallons of Blackberries. I guess I should be happy I got that much.....
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2 gallons is great Junie, will you be making pies or smoothies?
I got about 5 gallons of carrots. I put two in the fridge, cut and froze 1...gave a gallon away and kept the gallon of deformed and small ones for the horses for treats.
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I have frozen them loose on a cookie sheet then put them in 2 gallon freezer bsgs. That way I can take out what I need at any given time. I wil? Make pies, and then use some on cereal or with yogert. Plus the kids eat a lot of fruit, so I have it for them as well.
Yesterday, I gave them fresh frozen peaches that I had put up. They thought they were canned and would not touch them. So When I finally convinced them to try thrm, they gobbled them down.
5 gallons of carrots is a lot...good for you.
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I love blackberries Junie. That's how I freeze blueberries.
As far as okra, it can be frozen and I've frozen tons this year. We've eaten it til we're sick of it. Actually brought in more this afternoon. It's been a good year for okra. I'm going to try stir frying some with egg plant tomorrow. We'll see if Johnny will eat it.
It's not time for my carrots to be ready yet. It will be sometime in the fall. I can't imagine getting as much as you Sunny. That's a lot.
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My garden is still producing. I brought in tomatoes, beans, and okra today. These okra plants are still beautiful but the tomato plants are beginning to look a little bad.
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I found 3 tiny cherry tomatoes yesterday while watering my plants. I may get one of 2 more, but that will be the end of this year's garden veggies here. I am also drying sage to use over the winter. I also have some chives, but I have not decided if I will save any of them or not.
Glad your garden is going strong yet.
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