Recent content by Hooligan

Thank you all for your replies. I wouldn't have thought of freezing my tomatoes before canning them and was wondering how to deal with already ripe tomatoes while waiting for the others to ripen...That was actually going to be my next question so thank you again! As for the sauce, I think I...

OK so today I put up my 1st batch of tomato sauce and it's really watery. What did I do wrong? Should I have simmered/boiled it longer to cook some of the moisture out? I used mostly Roma tomatoes but there were a few of my early girls in there So I was thinking that might account for some of...

Have fun!!! I hope you don't get rained out!!! Can't wait to see pictures!

Hi! I'm new here and new to gardening (and chickens) so I've been lurking around here (and backyard chickens) but I just wanted to chime in and say that my peppers are looking really crumby too...I just don't get it. Everything else I have looks really good but my peppers are still so puny...

Sorry, I'm not much in the way of help here but some of the apples on our 5 apple trees look similar to yours in the "disfigured fruit" pic and I'm curious to know more too...thanks for posting this! I'm in IN too...but I'm in NW Indiana.