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Re: green tomatoes

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Patti, do you store only green T's that way or red ones too? Sounds 
wonderfully simple. Do you put the box directly on the basement floor? Does 
the box have a lid you close? Thanx!!

Keep the faith!
Gay Stoufer
Michigan's Upper Peninsula
gswanstoufer@hotmail.com

>From: Joe & Patti Maska <jpmaska@megsinet.net>
>Reply-To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
>To: Sqft gardening <sqft@listbot.com>
>Subject: green tomatoes
>Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 08:36:38 -0500

>If there's going to be a frost, and I know it'll be weeks before another
>one, I've had a lot of luck placing sheets on top of my tomato plants
>overnight.  It protects them and gives them another couple of weeks to 
>ripen
>on the vine.
>
>I also store my tomatoes in the basement -- I lay them single layer in a 
>box
>(making sure they don't touch) and put them in a dark, cool corner of the
>basement.  (If they touch, and one goes bad, it tends to travel to another
>tomatoes).  I've had luck keeping tomatoes that way -- weeks, sometimes,
>more than a month!
>
>Peace,
>Patti
>
>



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