They were really good tasting. I see World Market has them on sale, but I want to learn how to make my own. I'm sure somewhere on the internet, someone has already figured it out. The skins were intact, but thin.
Posted on 01/17/2014 5:49:09 AM PST by greeneyes
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I never take the pellets outdoors. As soon as I have a leaf, I transpose them to those biodegradable pots and put them out into the sun. Eventually, I tear off the bottom of those pots and plant them. Works well with herbs, especially.
All I said was this particular type doesn’t work. It’s obvious we’re talking different ones since you’re using from the top and saran wrap and the one I listed had a dome and a watering pad that waters from the bottom.
My grandfather called them hysterical markers, too. Must have been a saying back in their time.
Sorry, needed coffee and glasses. I sounded gruff. But, yeah, stick with what works.
“Thanks for the review and advice! The best experience is that for which another paid.....”
Thank you for that. That is an excellent statement. A keeper.
/johnny
They were really good tasting. I see World Market has them on sale, but I want to learn how to make my own. I'm sure somewhere on the internet, someone has already figured it out. The skins were intact, but thin.
I found this recipe, but it’s for refrigerator tomolives.
http://www.mrswheelbarrow.com/2010/08/tomolives-pickling-green-tomatoes/
I read the ingredients on the Old South ones because our waiter was kind enough to bring the bottle out, and serve us a whole plate of them so everyone could see how good they taste.
The Old South ones had Calcium Chloride (pickle crisp) in them. I’ve never canned using Calcium Chloride, but I know my UK cookbook has a recipe for canned tomatoes that are good for slicing, and it has Calcium Chloride in it.
I did see that World Market has the Tomolives on sale right now for $2.49 a bottle.
Oh, also, over here-which is where I found the link to Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s. This lady has a list of all the things she’s pickled..carrots, mushrooms, etc and the recipe for them.
They are refrigerator pickles
They look good. Maybe a trip to World Market is in my future.
Have you ever tried these? Oh, I don’t mean in martini’s
http://www.boscoli.com/node/43
Available at HEB. I started buying them because my wife likes all things garlic, then I tried them, now we can’t get enough.
I imagine my wife will try to make her own sometime, but if I keep buying these, maybe not. She does do some mean roasted garlic in olive oil.
Mostly I eat their hot garlic dill pickles.
The Kalamata Olive Salad at the Boscoli links sounds delicious..Now, I want a Muffuletta Sandwich.
I downloaded about a half dozen recipes from their site. Muffuletta Quesadilla has my mouth watering currently.
It must be great to have these folks for best friends.
We have used their olive salad to make muffulettas before. I had never had a muffuletta until sent to N.O. and Baton Rouge after Katrina. When you make that muffuletta, could you make two, please?
Lol, it would be great to have the Boscoli folks for my best friends, but they're not. I worded that poorly. My friends who have a canning business are in the Hill Country, and this is their business:
Their pickles are super crispy..Well, not the bread and butter pickles, but their other pickles.
Good luck with those perennial herb seeds. I have never grown catnip before - my old hunter warrior cat was not interested. Now I have a crop of young cats who are pretty spoiled, but I don’t think I will be gardening for them.
You all are way ahead of me. I have not started any seeds this year, other than direct seeding spinach outdoors. Spinach will germinate when the soil is forty degrees. Spinach is up about an inch high. I also took a gamble and planted snow peas and english peas this week. Tomorrow I hope to start Utah Sweet pomegranate and live oak from “seed” I collected. Just for fun. I cannot set out peppers and tomatoes before April 15th, so I won’t be seeding those flats for at least a month.
Happy Gardening!
The catnip is like mint. Every single one will make. I donate a couple of pots of catnip to the local shelter every spring.
I'll be starting spinach tomorrow probably, and maybe green leaf lettuce, assuming I have the lettuce seeds.
Catnip is always the first thing I plant every new year, because it does so well, it sets my tone for the year. ;)
/johnny
Awesome that you help the shelter.
Our animal shelters around here do good work. Bigger work is the large community of dedicated volunteers who maintain the feral cat program.
I’m not sure when I will start lettuce. Valentine’s Day used to be the perfect time to start the early garden, but winter seems to be shifting. February is getting colder. And I plant way too much stuff to protect from freeze or frost, so I tend to wait later than the folks in town.
I am probably paraphrasing HL Mencken or someone like him. Perhaps Ben Franklin.
/johnny
Thought you might find this thread interesting. It has some links to some prepper projects:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3113235/posts
I liked this one for a garden in a barrel that has been turned into a big pocket garden container.
http://americanpreppersnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=125&t=36668
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