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tomatoes and jalapenos

-- [ From: nonayobusiness * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] --

Hello!  If I harvest all these big fat jalapeno's, how would you suggest
that I dry them?  Or could I grind them up in the blender and freeze the
mush?  Would I add a little water to make  the stuff get blended properly? 
The most common thing we make with  jalapenos is a kind of green sauce that
is Yemenite, and it has lots of coriander  and is really good on top  of
hummous  on pita, and  on lots of other stuff too.  So I don't think I
should dry  them.


As far as tomatoes, if we get a summer where they don't want to ripen, what
we've done is make a sort of tent that goes over the plants that is covered
with thick, see through plastic that you can get in a do it yourself store.
 The way we did this was to make 2 x's with the intersection  of the x
above the tops of the tomato stakes.  Each of these were shoved into the
soil at the end of the row.  Then we put a long piece of wood resting on
the X's.  Over this, we draped the plastic.  We weighted the  plastic down
at each side, on the ground, with  rocks and old pieces of wood.  On the
ends we stapled triangles of plastic so the whole thing  was sealed up.  
To get in, we just took the weights off of one side and flipped the plastic
up.  This worked great, and we were picking fresh tomatoes right up until
the end of November.  The biggest problem was that it was real humid in
there, and a billion slugs sought refuge inside.  I also always grow a
bunch of Sweet Million Cherry tomatoes  because they always seem to start
ripening no matter what Mother Nature throws our way.  Also, they are the
only ones that my kids like, because they  are so SWEET! (Also,  all the
neighbor's kids!!!)  Happy Labor Day to you all.  Drive carefully, and 
don't eat too much!! Lauren, Zone  6 NY
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