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Re: Tomato's

Hi Marlon...finding out your zone depends on where you live...I might be
able to tell you what it is if you live in Canada, but for the rest of the
world, you would need some one elses help...

Now to the tomatoes...you will get different answers on this...but for me,
I cut most of the stems off and leaves too, to enable more energy to get to
the ripening fruit..I think it depends on where you live.  I have heard
that exposing the tomatoes to the direct sun can burn them, but here, that
is not a problem..our tomatoes end when we get our first frost, that is if
we don't cover them.  I do that for a while if it's an early frost and then
cut them off and bring the whole plant in to ripen the tomatoes...but that
again depends on how many plants you have.  I have had tomatoes continue to
ripen even though we got a heavy enough frost to wilt the leaves, but those
were the ones that were left outside when I had a much larger crops of
tomatoes (140 plants) and at that time I was so tired of bringing in
tomatoes, I didn't care :D

HTH
Donna


At 05:38 AM 8/27/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Tom and Donna,
>
>Dumb Question.
>
>How do you figure out what zone you're in ?
>
>Does removing leaves from the plant help it
>ripen ?  I tried this with our Zucchini.
>I do believe it does.  Please advise.
>
>When does your tomatoes finish ?
>
>regards,
>Marlon Rose-Mighty
>marlon@idirect.com
>
>----------
>> From: Tom & Donna Dawson <tomd@compusmart.ab.ca>
>> To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
>> Subject: Re: Tomato's
>> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 1997 12:18 AM
>> 
>> Missed the earlier one from Duncan...Duncan I just leave mine, our frost is
>> scheduled to hit us around Sept 16th and by then most of mine will be ripe
>> and what is left I will just bring in to ripen on the vines down in the
>> basement.  I have cut off a good many leaves now and this has helped speed
>> up ripening (although someone will say I am wrong :)...we are in zone 3a.
>> Some years I have covered up if frost is earlier and I just use
>> blankets..but then I don't have that many tomatoe plants to worry
>> about...took off a nice 12 1/2 once one today :D
>> Donna
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> At 12:05 AM 8/26/97 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Cover them with what ??
>> >
>> >Does this mean that they will take longer to ripen ???
>> >
>> >regards,
>> >Marlon Rose-Mighty
>> >marlon@idirect.com
>> >
>> >----------
>> >> From: Duncan McAlpine <mcalpin@eskimo.com>
>> >> To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
>> >> Subject: Tomato's
>> >> Date: Sunday, August 24, 1997 7:55 PM
>> >> 
>> >> So are any of your covering your green Tomato's to prolong the harvest?
>> >> 
>> >> Are you looking at the base of the green tomato to see the white star
>> >> which means the tomato is ready to change color?
>> >> -- 
>> >> Duncan McAlpine, Federal Way, WA   m*@eskimo.com
>> >> Why buy plants when you can grow them yourself.....?
>> >> http://www.eskimo.com/~mcalpin/
>> >> http://www.eskimo.com/~mcalpin/pumkin.html
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> ****************************************
>> Donna Dawson
>> email: tomd@compusmart.ab.ca
>> http://www.ICanGarden.com
>> The Canadian Internet Gardening Resource
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>
>
>
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http://www.ICanGarden.com
The Canadian Internet Gardening Resource
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