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  • From: "Wendy" <crazygardens AT verizon.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tomatoes
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:10:02 -0400

I grow fennel, or rather I allow the fennel volunteers to co-exist peacefully in my garden. There are two types of fennel: herb fennel and bulb fennel. I have herb fennel. I use the leaves, finely diced, in potato soup/w rivels (sp?). My fennel gets about 7ft tall in it's second year, and does not produce much of a bulb. Bulb fennel is a specialty type grown for its huge bulbs which are often used like onions but with a completely different flavor. I planted my fennel about 9 years ago and it has come up all over my garden ever since (I leave the seed heads on over the winter for this purpose). Fortunately, it does not make a pest of itself.

Wendy



Listen, you have to take beauty where you can find it, and what better
medium for a homesteader? ; ) I have long known when I can make
something pretty looking, my kid eats more of it.

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/05/26/what-happened-to-the-food/

Image heavy page of interestingly prepared fruits and veg. Two pics
may scare little kids, but my kid is up at the kitchen table making
things out of grapes, and then eating them.

And, I'd love a mandolin. I have a nice knife I love to use but a
mandolin would make somethings easier.

For storing tomatoes, last year I boiled them for 30 seconds to pull
off the skins, cored them, and threw them in zip locks in the
downstairs freezer. We had tomatoes till January. I really like to
cook, it's my form of relaxation, so I could just take these out in
the morning and start cooking like I had raw tomatoes. I did freeze
some as concentrated roasted tomato sauce, I should have done more
like that because we used those up quickly. Still, I found the smell
of tomatoes simmering all day in my crock pot was a real boon on a
chilly day.

Does anyone grow fennel? I've found if I add fennel to a dish I get
that sausagey taste I love without the meat. I've only ever used it as
a spice and I'm starting to wonder if I am really missing the boat in
terms of using it as a straight up veg.






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