sportsman94
Senior Member
Few pics of my garden from this morning. Hopefully gonna get some string run on the maters and peppers today
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My 5th summer garden: Expansion and more beans
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B. White
Senior Member
Finally got everything up enough to start looking like a little garden. Ran through it with the wheel hoe, but need to go back and hoe between plants and pull weeds. Grass has grown good this year. Sweet corn is about waist high (except replanted skips) and has more suckers/tillers than I've ever seen.
JB0704
I Gots Goats
Looks great y’all. I didn’t get any pics of the bug eaten plants today cause I was loading square hay bales ffom the neighbors field into my barn. Ima get out n take a few tomorrow n see what yall think I ort do.
Hilsman
Captain Gut Hook !
Hilled the corn yesterday afternoon. Really thought I would need to run the tiller down the rows but it wasn’t bad at all. Ended up breaking a mater plant off trying to get some low hanging leaves off. Gotta replant that one. Other than that everything is coming along good. Did have a couple bean plants nibbled on so I’ll be putting up some netting soon. 
fishfryer
frying fish driveler
Looking good!
JB0704
I Gots Goats
Nice! Do you can your maters or make sauces? That's a ton of em.
YAlls gardens all make mine look so dang sloppy. I gotta get better at this.
Hilsman
Captain Gut Hook !
Yea my mom has a recipe from her Granny that she likes to make. Its some kind of chili sauce and it takes a ton of maters just to make one batch. We didnt have enough last year so I made sure we did this year
JB0704
I Gots Goats
Very cool. I learned how to make my own sketti sauce last year from maters I begged off other folks. It requires a ton of em too, but very much worth it in the end. Hoping to grow enough myself this year but I am way behind everybody on here, it seems.
NE GA Pappy
Mr. Pappy
Roma style is the best 'mater to make sauces and stuff that you are cooking down to thicken. There isn't as much juicy juice in them, and a lot more meat. They don't have to cook as long, and it doesn't take as make a batch, except for their smaller size. The Amish paste 'mater is a good one to do that.
Those are my favorite taters. Only kind I'll grow.
JB0704
I Gots Goats
Good to know, as of now I only got better boys planted. I prolly ought put about 10 more plants in the dirt.
WaltL1
Senior Member
My Sicilian grandparents grew San Marzono Romas specifically for gravy/sauce. Wouldnt use any other kind. All the other types of tomatoes were used for sammiches, salads etc.
My San Marzonos are popping little maters pretty good right now.
JB0704
I Gots Goats
These are the things I love about this thread, learning stuff and tips from folks who have years of experience or history. I appreciate it, Walt......and, post pics of them maters! We love some garden pics round here.
Hilsman
Captain Gut Hook !
These are the ones I have planted. 1st year growing these.
WaltL1
Senior Member
They are fantastic for sauce but not the best for a good ol' mater sandwich.
And good luck!
livinoutdoors
Goatherding non socialist bohemian luddite
To me Amish paste is just good all round. Like you said great for sauce but i eat em fresh too. They have a great flavor for mater sammiches.
livinoutdoors
Goatherding non socialist bohemian luddite
Rule of thumb for sketti sauce....
20 maters cooked down for two hours makes ok sauce.
100 maters cooked down for ten hours makes amazing sauce.
20 maters cooked down for two hours makes ok sauce.
100 maters cooked down for ten hours makes amazing sauce.
NE GA Pappy
Mr. Pappy
those are good 'maters for sauces and such too.
JB0704
I Gots Goats
Then I reckon I need to grow a whole lot more maters. I did the 20 for 2 last year n it was good.
livinoutdoors
Goatherding non socialist bohemian luddite
You on your way to great then. Thats the first step.
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