Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ours ripen ok, but as soon as they ripen they get tomato blight, the skins go translucent and very hard. I didn't fancy spraying them with copper sulphate, so I pulled them out and incinerated them - the spores must be in the soil though, the next year's crop was the same. Cheers Douglas Jim Hemenway wrote: > Daniel and Douglas: > > If you heat your homes with a basement furnace of some sort, so that > the basement never gets below freezing, then pull the tomato > plant/vine up by its roots and hang it upside down in said basement. > > Then place a small brown paper (am not certain that they have to be > brown) bag over each green tomato and fasten it almost tightly around > the stem. I tried clear plastic sandwich bags once without very much > success > > Almost all of them will ripen nicely during the fall/winter. Yes, > they will! > > Between now and next summer, see if you can procure some "Frisco > Fogger" seeds which don't need much sun to grow and ripen. I grew > lots of these when I lived in the SF Bay Area. > > Jim > > > > Daniel Ridings wrote: >> It looks absolutely lovely! >> >> I can never get them to ripen this far north. We can get them to bear >> fruit, but there's never enough time for them to get ready for the >> table like this one. Nothing from the store can ever taste like one of >> these. >> >> Daniel >> >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Lottermoser George >> <imagist3@mac.com> wrote: >> >>> <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=481> >>> click on image for larger view >>> >>> 65 elmar, visoflex, M8, 180th second, f:5.6, auto ISO 640 >>> >>> Fond regards, >>> George >>> >>> george@imagist.com >>> http://www.imagist.com >>> http://www.imagist.com/blog >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >