I've posted a recipe for the Machboos at the following link.
https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=173812#173812
It looks like a wonderful dish. I will probably try it once with grocery store tomatoes. I will try it again in the summer when some of my "Black" tomatoes ripen. I can't even imagine how good the dish will taste with the smoky flavor of the blacks or possibly the fruity flavor of orange tomatoes from my KBX or Sungold plants. The possibilities are endless.
Suni,
In one of the photos you furnished, the rice color seems to indicate saffron was added. Do you know if saffron is ever used in the rice?
Thanks
Ted
Ted, Saffron is always used! Machboos is never done with just plain white rice!
Maybe I can post a recipe of another yummy Kuwaiti dish that goes beautifully with daqoos. It's called "immawash"
back to my tomatoes, I'm uppotting 10 tomatoes to 5 gallon pots, I've been dreading it because I know the nursery where I'm getting my soil mix+pots is ripping me off a little. I've spent too much in the past.
Maybe I can post a recipe of another yummy Kuwaiti dish that goes beautifully with daqoos. It's called "immawash"
back to my tomatoes, I'm uppotting 10 tomatoes to 5 gallon pots, I've been dreading it because I know the nursery where I'm getting my soil mix+pots is ripping me off a little. I've spent too much in the past.
Sani'Sani wrote:Ted, Saffron is always used! Machboos is never done with just plain white rice!
Maybe I can post a recipe of another yummy Kuwaiti dish that goes beautifully with daqoos. It's called "immawash"
back to my tomatoes, I'm uppotting 10 tomatoes to 5 gallon pots, I've been dreading it because I know the nursery where I'm getting my soil mix+pots is ripping me off a little. I've spent too much in the past.
Getting ripped off is just one of the feelings most gardeners probably feel. If someone had told me a few years ago, I would be paying $3.50 for bags of "dirt", I would have laughed at them. Someone once posted a thread asking what people use to mark/identify their seedlings and plants in the garden. The replies ranged from broken window blind slats to Popsicle sticks. If you buy the small white plastic markers sold for the purpose, they are outrageously priced for what you get. We always look to the future and say "the reward is worth it".
Ted
ted,
you're absolutely right, I always try to remind myself that its worth it. (I'm having a blast anyway)
$3.50 a bag!!
wow I filled my 10 new 5 gallon pots with $35.5 worth soil. and I'm not sure I even like it! its a mixture of a sandy potting soil+manure+peatmoss. I think the mix is too sandy for my liking.
I'm trying to make this first gardening experience almost like an experiment to find the best soil provider for me, thats why I'm trying a bunch of mixes.
I just finished up-potting 10 tomato plants; a lot of effort for a 5'2 girl.
you're absolutely right, I always try to remind myself that its worth it. (I'm having a blast anyway)
$3.50 a bag!!
wow I filled my 10 new 5 gallon pots with $35.5 worth soil. and I'm not sure I even like it! its a mixture of a sandy potting soil+manure+peatmoss. I think the mix is too sandy for my liking. I'm trying to make this first gardening experience almost like an experiment to find the best soil provider for me, thats why I'm trying a bunch of mixes.
I just finished up-potting 10 tomato plants; a lot of effort for a 5'2 girl.
I'm back!
and I got my first Principe Borghese tomato!
[img]https://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7438/zna8401.jpg[/img]
Since my last update I had a brief whitefly 'attack' on the leaves of my larger plants, that caused some chlorosis and cuts, so I dusted them all with Diotemacious Earth and I've been regularly spraying Neem Oil.
I am pruning most suckers. I also added mulch to all pots.
[img]https://img258.imageshack.us/img258/8631/zna8388.jpg[/img]
All my plants are flowering nicely
[img]https://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6805/zna8406.jpg[/img]
The determinant Principe Borghese much ahead of the indeterminant San Marzanos (they're the short ones)
[img]https://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8297/zna8390.jpg[/img]
I have one concern, the stems of the larger plants have these purplish/dark dots. Here is the stem with a close-up next to it.
[img]https://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2928/zna8410.jpg[/img]
and I got my first Principe Borghese tomato!
[img]https://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7438/zna8401.jpg[/img]
Since my last update I had a brief whitefly 'attack' on the leaves of my larger plants, that caused some chlorosis and cuts, so I dusted them all with Diotemacious Earth and I've been regularly spraying Neem Oil.
I am pruning most suckers. I also added mulch to all pots.
[img]https://img258.imageshack.us/img258/8631/zna8388.jpg[/img]
All my plants are flowering nicely
[img]https://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6805/zna8406.jpg[/img]
The determinant Principe Borghese much ahead of the indeterminant San Marzanos (they're the short ones)
[img]https://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8297/zna8390.jpg[/img]
I have one concern, the stems of the larger plants have these purplish/dark dots. Here is the stem with a close-up next to it.
[img]https://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2928/zna8410.jpg[/img]
Oh, I'm planning to give cute gift baskets to family and friends with my tomatoes and basil, If the principe borghese tastes fine I'll give it out fresh, If not then driedGarf wrote:At the rate you're going, soon you will have more than you know what to do with. That happened to me my first year.
@ applestar thank you! I cant believe how much I learned in the past 3 months. I owe a lot to you guys.
Because of the environment in which you are growing these, Sani, you may have some problems not usually experienced in an open garden.
Next season, you may want to think about "indoor" varieties and if they might be best for you. [url=https://www.johnnyseeds.com/c-414-greenhousepoly-tunnel.aspx]Here is a page from Johnny's (click)[/url]that may give you some ideas.
I have no experience here altho' I kept a couple tomato plants in my greenhouse thru the summer in 2010. It wasn't the best environment for them but it was wonderful to have fruit after frost had killed the outdoor plants!
Now, if I just had a swimming pool in that greenhouse . . . .
Steve
Here is Wishing You Continuing Good Growing, Sani!
Next season, you may want to think about "indoor" varieties and if they might be best for you. [url=https://www.johnnyseeds.com/c-414-greenhousepoly-tunnel.aspx]Here is a page from Johnny's (click)[/url]that may give you some ideas.
I have no experience here altho' I kept a couple tomato plants in my greenhouse thru the summer in 2010. It wasn't the best environment for them but it was wonderful to have fruit after frost had killed the outdoor plants!
Now, if I just had a swimming pool in that greenhouse . . . .
Steve
Here is Wishing You Continuing Good Growing, Sani!
@ digitS' Thank you!
Those plants I put out grew and flowered but they constantly have leaf miners and the adults that lay the eggs swarm around them all day, so they're not in the best of shape. While the toms in the pool are 3 times bigger in size, It couldn't be that bad in there?
I don't know what I'm going to do in the summer when my family want to use the pool again; shutting the cool air conditioner off.Now, if I just had a swimming pool in that greenhouse . . . .
I transfered two tom plants outside in our yard which already has a grass lawn,4 very large palm trees (+25 yrs old) and a lot of other plants, I don't know what it is about our yard that attracts so many insects.Because of the environment in which you are growing these, Sani, you may have some problems not usually experienced in an open garden.
Those plants I put out grew and flowered but they constantly have leaf miners and the adults that lay the eggs swarm around them all day, so they're not in the best of shape. While the toms in the pool are 3 times bigger in size, It couldn't be that bad in there?