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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

arghhhhhh.....
 
The critters like the really ripe ones and eat every last bit..........
 
I wonder if I can put them into little paper bags and let them ripen inside 
for the ones for the seeds.....
 
On another note,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,potatoes.
 
Purple Viking.  Held up to the triple digit heat well, and some are finally 
dying off.
I did not hunt for new pototoes in this garden.
Each plant dug up so far has only yielded 1-3 potatoes..... BUT they are 
really huge, like the giant baking potatoes at the grocery, only purplish on 
the outside.
 
I dug up on Red Pontiac, boy what a bunch of MUTANTS.  Some are elongated 
like sweet potatoes, some round, most have little mutant round balls 
attached.  Some had roots growing out of them.............. and some, honest 
I swear, have "eyes" sprouting... Sigh.............  LOL.
 
My giant pumpkins that were supposed to be little.......... the largest is 
now knee high (and I'm a very tall person)................ I'm going to need 
more canning jars.... :-)
 
 
 
 
 
--- On Tue, 8/18/09, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:


From: Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] tomatoes
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 12:07 AM


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.

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Can you build a cage around the tomatoes you want to save seed from.  Pick
what you want and leave a few on the plant and then cage them with hardware
cloth?  Or, even tie nylons or panty hose around one branch of the tomato.
to keep the critters away.

A bag doesn't really do any good.  You aren't actually ripening the tomatoes
so much as you are changing their color.  The seeds inside don't continue to
mature.

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

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


arghhhhhh.....

The critters like the really ripe ones and eat every last bit..........

I wonder if I can put them into little paper bags and let them ripen inside
for the ones for the seeds.....

On another note,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,potatoes.

Purple Viking. Held up to the triple digit heat well, and some are finally
dying off.
I did not hunt for new pototoes in this garden.
Each plant dug up so far has only yielded 1-3 potatoes..... BUT they are
really huge, like the giant baking potatoes at the grocery, only purplish on
the outside.

I dug up on Red Pontiac, boy what a bunch of MUTANTS. Some are elongated
like sweet potatoes, some round, most have little mutant round balls
attached. Some had roots growing out of them.............. and some, honest
I swear, have "eyes" sprouting... Sigh............. LOL.

My giant pumpkins that were supposed to be little.......... the largest is
now knee high (and I'm a very tall person)................ I'm going to need
more canning jars.... :-)





--- On Tue, 8/18/09, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:


From: Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] tomatoes
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 12:07 AM


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.

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