Garden

Well I finally pulled my onions and what a crop. I chopped them all up, vacuum sealed them in bags of a little over four pounds, and put them in the freezer. Now we are fixed for onions for the years. At a minimum, I have 120 pounds of chopped and ready to use onions. A great haul for little effort. Check out the pictures below.

Onions in the garden.
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My two garden helpers.
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Linda holding the largest one while recuperating.
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Yours truly holding a few.
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The largest one. 17 1/4", and it weighed 2.24 pounds after drying.
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The haul.
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Here are gallon bags of 4 pounds plus before I froze them and vacuum sealed them.
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Originally Posted by dpisani

I will probably get out of the gardening. To many irons.

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Too many ironshttp://www.crappie.com/crappie/image...atchhed%20.gif You cut the grass MAYBE once every other week and the rest of your time you're in Toledo Bend. I see where your priorities are :biggrin

I know who is bringing onions to the next gathering (s)!!!! :Rofl

You done good Pawpaw Gene. :ThumbsUp


Glad to see Mrs. Linda smillin too, tell her its time to get up and get going with that new knee. Jumping Jacks Icon

Gene, do you keep some of those tops too? They're good in all sorts of things. Thanks for posting.

Nice that's a whole lot of onions

Attachment 129235Fresh out of the garden, picked 4 more eggplant today and a handful of tomatos

Made a batch of Rotel from my tomatos and jalopenos I picked from the garden yesterday and ended up with 3 quarts, also put up 2 quarts of eggplant for caserol or dressing and made a quart of pico de gallo it was a busy afternoon. I wish you could smell that Rotel through the computer it made my mouth water.
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That Pico de gallo looks excellent. I do the same thing. Love it when it's fresh like that.

I really picked a bowl full today or should I say 4 bowls full.Attachment 129583

Mike, how do you like those green eggplants. Is there much different taste than the dark ones.
"gene"