RE: Tomatoes

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• To: g*@hort.net
• Subject: RE: [CHAT] Tomatoes
• From: "Donna" g*@sbcglobal.net
• Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 22:04:28 -0500
• In-reply-to: 92d2290b862cfa207090eac941cb5100@verizon.net

Well tomorrow I will be planting my small tomato plants in the garden :)

Donna
Hum. Maybe we should think about this Jim.... sending me your fully grown
ready to produce plants for the summer.... and I will send them back to you
in the fall when it gets too cold up here...<lol>


> Our spring crop of tomatoes is over, except for the wild tomatoes. The
> nights are now too warm for fruit to set. So today, we ripped the vines
> out, piled the green fruit on the kitchen table [to be broiled for out
> next several breakfasts], and tomorrow we will plant the fall crop.
> Again, we will plant two varieties--"Early Girl," a determinant that I
> had good success with in California, and "Heat Wave," which is touted
> to handle hot weather better than other varieties.
> 
> Tomorrow or Monday, I want to do likewise with the wild tomato patch.
> That is, pick the whole thing. Puree and can all the ripe ones that we
> can't eat in a few days, and pickle all the green ones with sliced
> jalapenos and garlic cloves. Maybe I'll throw a Stevia leaf or two into
> a couple of the pickle jars just to see what will happen.
> 
> Island Jim

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