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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thanks Bev; I don't know about the sausage tomatoes.  I guess I'll be finding 
out soon.  I know one kind I'm going to skip in the spring.  Two of my bigger 
tomatoes have cheer tomatoes that aren't much bigger than berries.  Too hard 
to fork ....bobf

--- On Mon, 10/6/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Okra getting big & other vegs.
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 8:48 PM
> bob ford wrote:
> > Yesterday, I did not even notice small fruit on my
> okra plants.
> > Today, all of the plants have okra, two have
> individual okra over 5"
> > long.  I was either blind yesterday, or they really
> grew fast.  I
> > wish I planted more than (4) plants.  I don't know
> if I'll remember
> > how to tell when its ready to pick.
> 
> 5" is about the maximum of what I would want. I eat
> them raw when they 
> are 1-4 inches long.  MMMMM...
> Smaller = tender
> Larger =  woody
> You have to keep okra cut so it will continue to produce. 
> It is 
> tempting to let those big ones go for seed, but don't
> do that until the 
> end of the season because you have to keep the okra cut.  
> I actually 
> had 6 plants this year. :)
> Next year, I will be planting more.  I had some unknown
> okra seed and 
> was hopeful that it was a dwarf burgundy type, so I planted
> a few.  It 
> wasn't.  None of the okra I grew made it into the
> house.  I ate the pods 
> as garden snacks. :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > I picked a few tomatoes, including some very oddshaped
> red ones (look
> > like a thick jalapeno pepperr), and some nice yellow
> ones. 
> 
> Do you have paste tomatoes, like a sausage type?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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