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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tomato question
  • Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:43:18 -0800

I would think. The tomatoes I grew on the coast were a much sweeter tomato than I grow here and acid doesn't even begin to describe this soil <g>

Since I can most of mine, I do worry about the acidity because I'd rather BWB tomatoes and don't like to have to bother with the pressure canner.

I want that acidity and it makes for a better salsa, mole and taco sauce if I BWB.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>

Lynda wrote:
NO! Do NOT leave on the vine. Remove the tomatoes. The pH
increases (acidity decreases) dramatically once the vine of a tomato
is killed.

Hmm. I have some still hanging on a dead vine in my greenhouse. (two
left). I had a vine with about 40 green toms on it, so I dug it out of
my bed and half reburied it in the recycled soil container in my
greenhouse. Since early November, the vine has died, but the tomatoes
have been okay to eat. They weren't the best tasting tomatoes to begin
with, so it is hard to judge how they are on taste. I use a few every
week or so..they are small toms,,,,I have pulled them off to use in
tomato sauce or chili. I can see that for canning a lower acid tomato
might be a bad thing though.
Do you think Lynda, that our acid soil makes for a more acid tomato to
begin with?

Bev

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