A Seed Saver's Garden

[heirloomgal]

I cannot imagine that I ever would have tried Bloody Butcher tomatoes under any other circumstance than that I was gifted the seed. The person thought they were very special and, with a similar climate, I decided what the heck. They are indeed a very special heirloom tomato for full flavor and very quick maturing.

When I was a kid, when we took a steer to the packing house, I would hang around the screened open door of the processing room while arrangements were made for cutting up our beef. One day, the butchers stopped working with their steaks and roasts, grinding meat on their machines, and they began sharpening some long knives. They opened another door and about 10-12 sheep scrambled in on the concrete floor. In a matter of a few minutes, they were dead and laying all over the place! I never stood at that door and watched the workers again.

DW and I call the BB tomatoes –– Jolly Ranchers .

Steve

Ghastly!

 

[heirloomgal]

After today, I'm ready for a back transplant! Twisted the wrong way a week ago and boy it bizarrely reduced my capacities. I didn't even exert when it happened which is odd. I was feeling great today for the first time since, and then we cut down 3 more trees; all the clean up and bending and carrying, over the course of the day eroded my progress. But progress was made nonetheless!

Dug up 5 out of 6 sunchoke varieties as well, pics to come. 2 are red skinned! Lots of really nice diversity between them. That was a ton of fun! DD & I had a great time rooting around for buried treasure (Ironically the one we did that most with was called 'Ruby Treasure'! lol) The ones planted up against the house really seemed to like the wall, and so some of the tubers grew directly on the side of the house underground. They're totally flat on one side, we had to kind of scrape them off. That was surprising.

Tomorrow is the day to plant the new big 'sunchoke garden'. Exciting!

The more of these delicious little tubers you eat, the more addicted you are. I ate my 3rd or 4th serving today. I've graduated to 'I like these more than potatoes'. Which is saying a lot because I love potatoes!

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