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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

Petroleum Jelly..... sticky foot :-)
 
Do I need to wait for the tomato to be completely vine ripened if I want to 
save seed?
I've been picking one day before that to beat the critters to the tomatoes.
 
I don't know what kind of Roma I got at Walmart........... but geez, 4 
plants, and I've picked over 400 tomatoes now and there are still more, and 
the darn things are flowering again.  Is that kind of quantity normal for a 
Roma?  
 
The Romas I started from seed direct in the ground are starting to produce 
and are flowering... but they are no where near as loaded with tomatoes on 
the plants, as least not yet.  
 
The only thing I think that happened with the triple digit here was the 
tomatoes were small and green but kind of went into hybernation almost (or 
growth so slow I couldn't see it)... and then since the worst is over the 
tomatoes got a little bigger and are ripening daily, every day.  Seems every 
time I go out there I find more to pick.
 
 
 
 
 

--- On Sun, 8/16/09, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:




When I sun dry I put two screens together and the fruit/veggies in the
middle.  I sit them on sawhorses with "sticky foot" on the legs and the ants
don't make it to the top.

I need to save the Green Grape seeds this year.  Seems that no one carries 
the "true" Green Grapes anymore.  They carry "little" cherry tomato but not 
the old-fashioned bigger ones.

My tomatoes seldom reach the size they are supposed to.  DH snatches the 
things off the vine the very instant they vaguely resemble red.  I have a 
couple of Cherokee Purple that just might make it to real nice slicing size. 
They are in the middle of the plant and I don't think he's seen them <g>

My tomatoes aren't doing too well this year.  With 17 straight days of 
torrential rains, they were kind of beat into the ground and then we had 3 
weeks of triple digits.  Someone out there was determined that my tomatoes 
would be a sorry bunch this year.

Lynda
The press corp is fact-adverse but very fable friendly.

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


> Yes, I can sun dry them, but I have to pick my time carefully and I may
> have to finish them off in the house.  I have multiple window screens
> that I can use.  Birds, squirrels, and ants can be a real problem
> though.  I will have to constantly be moving them around.  Since this
> week has a 30% chance of rain or better every day, I may wait a week or
> just do it in the truck.  I like dried tomatoes so much that I like them
> both ways, but you are right, the sun maybe caramelizes the sugars or
> something and they are definitely sweeter if they are sun dried.  I
> usually, half them, save as much seed as possible, make a slit so that
> it will lie down flat and toss the tom in a bowl of lemon juice.  When I
> get enough, I load up the screen or dehydrator, sprinkle the toms with a
> dash of salt, and wait for what seems like an eternity.<g>  I'm not
> sure, but I think my Amish Paste and Romas have crossed.  I grow them
> together, and they are looking more and more similar as the years go on.
>  Shape wise they are very close now, but the Amish paste retains the
> little point on the blossom end, a very handy little point to grab and
> pull when you are skinning tomatoes.  I don't think I've ever dried the
> sausage toms, but they are so meaty that I am going to try it this year.
>  I think I will cut them into strips, specifically quarters.  I get
> hungry just thinking about it.
>
> I started the fermenting process for saving tomato seed.  I have
> multiple jars on the table, each with a different variety of tomato.
> I've been able to save a good bit of seed so far this year.  The
> combination of varieties (Abe Lincoln, Mr. Stripey, Brandywine, Roma,
> Amish Paste, Red German Strawberry, Caspian Pink and Sausage) make a
> nice sauce, not too acid, and I'm real pleased with the taste of just
> the plain sauce.
> I'm not putting some of the toms in the sauce.  Cherokee Purple, some of
> the larger, prettier Brandywines, and the cherry toms are just for eating.

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LOL ---  I just saw a headline.........
 
I guess I wasn't the only one that complained directly to the White House to 
STOP SPAMMING ME, that spamming me wasn't going to change my mind, it was 
just pissing me off..................
 
 

--- On Fri, 8/14/09, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:




I'd blame it all on "new math" except the last prez was also math deficient 
and he went to school before "new math" was invented.  Could it be in the 
water in the DC Whorehouse?

Lynda
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Have you received your White House Spam today?




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You want the tomatoes over ripe.  The longer on the vine the more mature the
seeds and the more that will be viable.

DH made me a mini-greenhouse out of the door of a freezer.  Set it up on
sawhorses and we made a "hoop" out of welded wire (2x4") and I got some
heavy duty vinyl at WallyWorld for $5 and cut it to shape and super glued it
together.

The tomatoes I started in the mini-hoop from the saved seeds are the
best/healthiest tomatoes we've got this year.  The one volunteer is doing
real well.  It's a cherry tomato.  Sweet Million more than most likely.

Lynda
The press corp is fact-adverse but very fable friendly.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>


Petroleum Jelly..... sticky foot :-)

Do I need to wait for the tomato to be completely vine ripened if I want to
save seed?
I've been picking one day before that to beat the critters to the tomatoes.

I don't know what kind of Roma I got at Walmart........... but geez, 4
plants, and I've picked over 400 tomatoes now and there are still more, and
the darn things are flowering again. Is that kind of quantity normal for a
Roma?

The Romas I started from seed direct in the ground are starting to produce
and are flowering... but they are no where near as loaded with tomatoes on
the plants, as least not yet.

The only thing I think that happened with the triple digit here was the
tomatoes were small and green but kind of went into hybernation almost (or
growth so slow I couldn't see it)... and then since the worst is over the
tomatoes got a little bigger and are ripening daily, every day. Seems every
time I go out there I find more to pick.