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Last watermelon from the garden this year, going to cut it later tonight. Hope it's a good one.

This was a bad year for melons and loupes...

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A man I used to lease a hayfield from on his first try had a great crop of watermelons (Mr. W). The week they needed to be pulled he got called away on business.

I was selling at 3 different farmers markets that year. A couple of brothers who were neighbors of Mr. W had a load of watermelons at the market one Saturday. They are known thieves and lowlifes. I knew they didn’t grow those melons and I asked about them. They told me a man in another town gave them a small patch.

A few days later I was over checking to see if the hay was ready to cut. Mr. W was there and asked for my help. He wanted to know if coyotes drag melons into the woods…

See, all his melons were missing. I told him what I suspected happened to his melons! Those two brothers and their daddy are scum. They have been thieves, liars and cheats their whole lives…

Mr. W is a very kind and generous man, if they had asked he would have given them the melons… but thieves do what thieves do! :mad:

@Bacpacker electric fence is the only thing that will keep them out of melon patch. mount it about 6 inches high, hidden among the leaves...
 
I have the same problem. More tomatoes than we could possible ever use.
My salsa came out thin but it taste good. I should have cooked it down more and I should have added some tomatoes after it cooked so it would have been chunky.
Next time I will.
I bought 2 packages of Mrs. Wages salsa mix, 1 mild and 1 spicy and combined them into 1 batch. It's too spicy for my wife but I like it.
We added onions and green peppers to the mix.
I need a good hot shot salsa recipe.
 
I didn't find my NH's recipe yet, but I did find this on a thread by Captain Belly:
https://www.homesteadingforum.org/threads/chile-de-arbol-salsa.1237/
This is a pretty old video, but it shows how to make my favorite salsa. I found that most Mexican restaurants will have a version of this that is not on the menu. However, this salsa is starting to become more common. I put this on EVERYTHING. My friends can't get enough of it. The base is Tomatillos. I have had to triple my crop due to the requests for this.
 
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