I started making sun dried tomatoes and store them in olive oil, however I also am planting more tomatoes than last year so any suggestions/tips you’d like to share :)

[–] tty5@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

With tomatoes as primary ingredient we make:

passata
pizza sauces
pasta sauces
salsas / nacho dips
sun dried

and they are added to a bunch of other things - e.g. some of the pickles

[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would love to see your process, do you stream, at all?

[–] tty5@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

full time job + garden + restoring the house I live in.. there aren't enough hours in the day

[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for your answer, and kudos to you and yours for such an immense and important project! I am working towards that goal myself and am in full absorption mode, nothing better than hearing what others are doing and learning all I can.

[–] tty5@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's a process and every year you see an improvement over the previous one.

5 years ago I've had a meadow that was slowly overgrowing with trees and some old, mostly dead fruit trees that look like from a horror movie around the house.

With just me an my wife working on it we got to half an acre of a garden, a greenhouse, tiny vineyard (if you can call 20 plants that), 50-60 fruit trees and bushes. I intend to add beehives and a chicken coop before summer.

[–] Lemmee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How big is your garden?!?

[–] tty5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

~2000m^2 / half an acre.

It was a meadow slowly overgrowing with random trees 5 years ago, so it took quite a bit of effort to get there

[–] Lemmee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Must be an incredibly rewarding experience to get to that point and start seeing the fruits (literally) of your labor. Congrats!