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Entries Tagged as 'tomatoes'

Canning, Interrupted

July 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · garden, Recipes

Do you set aside a day to can tomatoes? I know I don’t. If I spent a day canning tomatoes, we’d have enough canned tomatoes to feed an army. We’ve found that just two healthy Roma tomato plants provide enough tomatoes to last us the entire year. In fact, we just used the last pint […]

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Tomato In A Crack

July 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments · garden

Having trouble growing tomatoes? Here’s proof that tomatoes will grow anywhere, under almost any conditions. This one has taken root in a crack in our front stoop. Yes, a dirty little secret of food gardening is that tomatoes aren’t at all hard to grow. You just need to pick ones that thrive in your local […]

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Tomatoes!

July 18th, 2009 · 10 Comments · garden

Were you one of those kids who used to sit in the garden on a hot summer day with a salt shaker, gorging on ripe tomatoes? I was. So I guess I am just rediscovering my youth, growing 12 tomato plants in our front-yard kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, about a mile […]

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