A Seed Saver's Garden

heirloomgal · Sunday at 11:20 PM

ducks4you said:
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Middle DD is experimenting with using tomatoes and the dried tomatoes I gave her to make pasta and pizza sauce--she makes a Mean pizza!
I await her results...

One of the most delicious uses for dried tomatoes I've tried yet.

I always served it on hot noodles, with a bit of extra cheese on top. It is sooo good! I need to make this again actually, it's been too long, thank you for the memory refresher! :hugs

When Basil Season Is Over, We Eat Red Pesto

When basil isn't in season, try this punchy and sweet sun-dried tomato pesto. It can be used in any way you would serve regular basil pesto, but we love it with pasta, spread on sandwiches, as a dip with veggies, or stirred into soup.

www.simplyrecipes.com

heirloomgal · Sunday at 11:30 PM

I've been shelling for days. Hours every evening; it's both satisfying & tiring at this stage. And it wasn't even a super great bean year, nothing like 2023 was. Feeling extremely grateful though because pests gave me a run for my money, it was a possibility my main garden got wiped out by first cutworms then voles. But I am so ready to be done with the shelling, tonight I started XL Costco leaf bag #4. And there is plenty of Halloween prep needing done so finishing up soon is needed. Then all the tomato seeds need to be scraped off their drying sheets and packed up.

All the jars on the tables filled with colorful beans is feeling pretty great though. :celebrate

heirloomgal · 2025-10-29T23:49:46-0500

Memories of the 'Shirley' poppies this summer....

I had no idea that a single poppy variety could have so much diversity in it and still be a single variety. I'm surprised how much I enjoyed them, and the long blooming time they had (probably because of crowding). In the end I saved some seeds from them, which was somewhat of a miracle considering poppies give you no wiggle room with timing so I missed a ton. I dislike how awful the dead brown stems look as you wait for the heads to dry, but in the end I decided it was worth it.