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To: Diana in Wisconsin; Pete from Shawnee Mission
After tomorrow, we get a break from the heat. Early Girl flowers and baby maters dried up to a crisp. All other flowers ok but no other ripening except for a few Black Cherry and plenty of the Chadwick Cherry which seems unfazed. Watered for an hour last night and I'm going to water again for an hour tonight and the next night. Don't want to do too much at once else I'll have a bunch of split maters.

Steam Juicing? Never heard of it. I'll have to look into it.

This is one of the older items on my amazon wishlist.

No juicing ability is my excuse for not growing any canning type tomatoes or any determinate for that matter. I suppose I could do stewed whole or quartered tomatoes. Easy enough to heat in water and slip the skins off. I have figured on having a row or two of paste tomatoes in the tunnel.

Our biggest tomato use is sauces, Mainly pasta sauce and also BBQ sauces and not chunky sauces because my autist doesn't do sauce with chunks. God forbid it be little chunks of onion. He will separate them and drag them up on the edge of the bowl. If it takes an hour to eat a bowl of spaghetti because of that, so be it. I think it's a texture thing because he's fine with whatever was cooked with them in it so it's not the flavor.

The kids and I went out several years ago picking blackberries and I made wild blackberry jam without a juicer. Lot of work mashing and shoving through a small sieve to get juice out of them.

I do plan to grow grapes too and Norton sounds like a good one. My buddy grows several varieties and made wine a couple of years ago but also manually crushing/juicing them. I work in one of the many MO wine towns and drive by vineyards on my way to work.

130 posted on 08/24/2023 1:01:55 PM PDT by Pollard (The US government has US citizens as political prisoners!)
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To: Pollard

“Steam Juicing? Never heard of it. I’ll have to look into it.”

You’ll never go back to any other way of juicing. I just love the thing. It’s great for making my V-8, too. Just put all the mixed veggies in the colander pot, and the steam does the rest for you.

It takes about 30 minutes or so for a full colander basket of grapes to be juiced, stems included but earwigs removed, LOL!


133 posted on 08/25/2023 8:41:09 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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