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Re: green tomatoes

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Gay,
Glad to hear of your success, because I hacked the heck out of the plants
last night.  There were so many hidden fruits after I cleared away the
foliage.  Some already red and ready to pick.  There are more than 200
full-size tomatoes left on the 7 plants--plenty more for eating and canning.
BTW, your yellow tomatoes will ripen in boxes or in the house.  It's not
necessary to hang them on the plants.  I never could detect a difference in
flavor between vine-ripened fruit and those ripened in the house after the
yellow stage had been reached.  We did that all the time in Texas where the
heat was more of a problem for ripening.  The 100-degree days would turn the
fruit to mush.
Doreen Howard
Zone 5b--Central IL.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gay Stoufer <gswanstoufer@hotmail.com>
To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: green tomatoes


>Doreen, I did the exact same thing hoping my intuition would prove correct
>(despite my neighbors scratching their heads) & it worked beautifully!! I
>put plastic over the plants & left it there & didn't ever remove it unless
>the temp. under the plastic reached 95-100. I then removed it only for the
>few hours left in the day B4 the night/late afternoon temp. started to
drop.
>Low & behold after 2 weeks my plants had more red T's & some nice yellow &
>green ones to save & ripen inside.
>
>I pulled the plants yesterday, cut the green ones off to ripen in a box in
a
>cool dry space, & hug the plants with yellow T's left on them upside down
>(roots still there) on a rope in the garage. The garage is attached to the
>house so it doesn't get too cold. I have to leave for the next 7 days or so
>& decided I'd better get the plants out of the garden----we may have a
heavy
>frost any day now. Try your theory. I do believe it will work for you!!
>
>Keep the faith!
>Gay Stoufer
>Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Zone 5
>gswanstoufer@hotmail.com
>
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