Green Club

[sourland]

Alaskan was picking on me last year so I did a 'Blizzard Chant' and pointed my GPS towards Alaskan's home. Alaskan was very angry with me.

 

[Alaskan]

Alaskan was picking on me last year so I did a 'Blizzard Chant' and pointed my GPS towards Alaskan's home. Alaskan was very angry with me.

most true!

How about a tropical weather front?

My tomatoes aren't red yet. Of course, they never get red before I need to harvest them......but I keep hoping that they might.

 

[sourland]

Alaskan, wish that you were closer - my 7 plants are producing like gangbusters. The heirlooms are still setting fruit. I'll be eating 'my' tomatoes through November.

 

[Alaskan]

Alaskan, wish that you were closer - my 7 plants are producing like gangbusters.  The heirlooms are still setting fruit.  I'll be eating 'my' tomatoes through November. 

I bring mine in the house when they are still GREEN, no matter the size, at the very last minute, and let them ripen in the house.

 

[sourland]

At the very last minute aka FROST I bring in the whole plant and hang them in the cellar - tomatoes until November.

I live on BLT sandwiches all summer long.

 

[Alaskan]

At the very last minute aka FROST I bring in the whole plant and hang them in the cellar - tomatoes until November.

I live on BLT sandwiches all summer long.

hang them? dirtless....upside down someplace dark?????

With the tomatoes still attached?

how is this different than wrapping them in newspaper in boxes? (as in how does the resulting product differ)

 

[Wisher1000]

 

[sourland]

Dirt shaken off, upside down - cellar has windows for light, tomatoes still attached, differs from wrapping in that I don't wrap them -

Mom would say that I do it the 'lazy man's way'. She always wrapped them.

 

[Alaskan]

Dirt shaken off, upside down - cellar has windows for light,  tomatoes still attached, differs from wrapping in that I don't wrap them -

Mom would say that I do it the 'lazy man's way'.  She always wrapped them.

Does the end product taste different? Ever tried to compare them?

I like the idea...but..... Most of my plants are pretty tangled together as well as 4 feet tall. Hummmmmmm I could always hang them from the ceiling of the toy room.

 

[Bunnylady]

I'd heard of Sour's method of ripening tomatoes "on the vine" after frost, but have never been able to try it - I haven't ever had a basement during my entire adult life, nor any other technically unheated space that would stay above freezing.

You'd think a rabbit tunnel would work though, wouldn't you?