Sunday, September 28, 2008
Tomatoes
I've had a great crop of tomatoes this year. I got my plants at the Ballard Farmer's Market and planted them at the beginning of June. There are three different heirloom varieties. One has large pink tomatoes, one with clusters of small orange tomatoes, and one with clusters of small red tomatoes. Mid-late September I had a lot of well-developed fruit but had only one ripe tomato. So I did some reading and decided to start stressing out my plants. On one of them I tried cutting around 3 sides of the root and the other ones I plucked off a bunch of leaves and new growth. The leaf removal seems to work best to me. I've been removing more and more as time has gone on and the tomatoes are ripening at a pretty steady rate. And they taste delicious!
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awesome. i only did one tomato plant this year, little yellow cherry ones. they are good but nothing like what i had the first year i grew tomatoes! i do have a couple of random plants that grew up in the middle of my strawberries. i think they were from seeds in the worm compost! they haven't ripened yet so i don't know what they are. i think this week was our last getting toms from terra firma. i am going to have to start buying them in the store.
i'm thinking about freezing some of my tomatoes. i read in my preserving book you could do that easily. i'm not going through them very fast right now and would like to have some later in the year. even if it is just cooked in something.
i think it's really easy to freeze them, though i haven't done it. you can even freeze them whole!
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