Posted on 07/04/2014 12:43:46 PM PDT by greeneyes
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I bet your mouth is already watering in anticipation of tasting those ears? LOL
Shame that your Dad does that stuff.
Ours is one of those accidental silver linings. The pipe clogged up. Hubby and repair men can’t figure out how to unclog it - water is too hard and pipe to small would just clog again even if they could.
So we have a closet built around the unit and some sort of pipes they put on and they drain into the buckets. We have to check it pretty often when the humidity is high to make sure it doesn’t over flow.
Weird that it is only on the roma’s. All the buckets are grouped together in the same space and filled with the same potting mix.
So far no problem with the others. Are roma’s more sensitive to sun?
Very little of the sweetness is lost in this process.
Pick the peppers when they are red ripe. Cut into bits with the seeds.
Spread on a cookie sheet and heat in a convection oven at 150 F. I run the oven for 1 hour at a time; it can take three hours to get the bits dried for grinding.
Take the sheet outside and grind small amounts; don’t over tax the little coffee mill.
Keep a Kleenex handy...
Cheers, and thanks Johnny for posting my pix.
Eric
When school starts, I'll be bored, and miss all the kids and activity.
/johnny
You have twins !
Wow...
The girlchild of the twins is stable as a table. I mentor her on her artwork, and provide some materials, and of course chocolate, and that's all good. She helps with the younger kids, as a teen girl should.
I'll have my own grandkids back next week, and the chaotic routine with the 5 (or 6, depending on who is there) will start again.
It's a zoo around here sometimes. ;)
/johnny
Surprisingly, those held up really well, considering that we've been in triple-digit temps for over a month now here in Warmthville...no sunscald at all.
I don't "do" anything tomato - but wifey loves 'em - but the report is that the little cherries were quite good, but an attempt at making juice was a bigtime fail.
Sounds like they are well adapted to the area. Sell the seeds and call 'em "Erns Cherry Tomatoes"
/johnny
My three Roma plants were/are in my greenhouse, which is now with the plastic removed, a shade cloth house.
Anyway, when they first started getting ripe, the first two or three roma tomatoes were flat on the end, and that brownish/taupe color. I didn't see how it could be calcium deficiency as I use Tomato-Tone on them..Anyway, I thought at first it was blossom end rot, but it wasn't..it was just like the tomato was stunted on the end, and had tha brown skin..
It was just the first three tomatoes, and after that, the rest were normal. I guess it could've been sun scald as it was getting super hot in there before I started running a fan 24/7, and then finally removed the plastic covering.
That guy from the NYT uses vodka and an egg I think. I'm trying to keep my crusts as streamlined as possible. Oh, some use a little apple cider; it relaxes the gluten making it easier to roll.
Courage !
You’re doing the right thing.
I have to wonder sometimes.
/johnny
My grandparents moved in from the farm in about 1920 but they kept the farms and my sister and I each have one now. The home farm had an outhouse which I have used, gone now, but also indoor plumbing at some point.
My grandmother used a huge woodburning stove in town until my dad went and found her a nice electric stove. She used corn cobs for fuel.
If my tenants move out, I think I will move down to the farmhouse. I never liked it too well but I'm fed up with this place, was really nice once. I will just pay someone to plow in winter, have to pay a lot more here.
Yeah, it looks like some great tomato growing weather coming up for us, e.g., 80’s for ten days out.
...and good for my corn, too.
I am not sure whether or not the Romas are more suseptable to sun scald than other tomatoes.
Sun scald on fruits and stems frequently occurs when you do one or two procedures together :
1)if you prune suckers (unproductive vegetative growth) off tomato plants; this makes for easier fruit picking, but at the expense of the plant shadeing itself
Also , when you prune the suckers , it forces more of the plants energy into fruit production and earlier ripeness.
2)if you water plants in bright sunlight; the droplets remain on the stem or leaves, and act as magnifiers of sunlight causeing sun scald.
Sun scald generally occurs when there is high humidity, very bright sunlight, and a slow evaporation of water droplets.
Some people water vegetable gardens very early in the morning, but best policy is to water at night to increase water transmisson to encourage deeper roots,
and to minmize water evaporation .
What kind of air conditioner do you have and how do you
collect the water? Boy, I’m interested, I need all the water I can get.
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