• notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip
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        28 days ago

        Holy wow. I’m curious about the tomatoes, do you can them for sauce? I used to freeze mine with decent results.

        I started making sun dried tomatoes and store them in olive oil, however I also am planting more tomatoes than last year so any suggestions/tips you’d like to share :)

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          With tomatoes as primary ingredient we make:

          • passata
          • pizza sauces
          • pasta sauces
          • salsas / nacho dips
          • sun dried

          and they are added to a bunch of other things - e.g. some of the pickles

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            28 days ago

            Thanks for your answer, and kudos to you and yours for such an immense and important project! I am working towards that goal myself and am in full absorption mode, nothing better than hearing what others are doing and learning all I can.

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              28 days ago

              It’s a process and every year you see an improvement over the previous one.

              5 years ago I’ve had a meadow that was slowly overgrowing with trees and some old, mostly dead fruit trees that look like from a horror movie around the house.

              With just me an my wife working on it we got to half an acre of a garden, a greenhouse, tiny vineyard (if you can call 20 plants that), 50-60 fruit trees and bushes. I intend to add beehives and a chicken coop before summer.

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              28 days ago

              full time job + garden + restoring the house I live in… there aren’t enough hours in the day

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          ~2000m^2 / half an acre.

          It was a meadow slowly overgrowing with random trees 5 years ago, so it took quite a bit of effort to get there

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            28 days ago

            Must be an incredibly rewarding experience to get to that point and start seeing the fruits (literally) of your labor. Congrats!