Weekly Gardening Thread – 2011 (Vol. 34) September 2

Free Republic | 09-02-2011 | Red_Devil 232

[Red_Devil 232]

Good morning gardeners. I Hope all is well with you, your gardens and your endeavors. To make saving your prized tomato seeds easier than ever try using some Oxy-Clean. Oxy-Clean? Yep the same stuff that Billy Mays pushed in all those TV commercials! Thanks to Freeper “who knows what evil?” for the heads up on this easy to do technique. Here is a link to a web page that describes the procedure - Saving Tomato Seeds

Now how easy is that?

If you are a gardener or you are just starting out and are in need of advice or just encouragement please feel free to join in and enjoy the friendly discussion. Our Freeper community is full of gardeners, each with varying interests and skill levels from Master Gardener to novice.

I hope all your gardens are flourishing.

[afraidfortherepublic]

This pie is good for breakfast, lunch, or dinner and I didi not notice any “gel around the seeds” at all. LOL :) Try the Sargento blend of 5 Italian white cheeses. Already grated and measured. Mmmmm-mmmmm-good. Easy. Serve with salad for lunch, or dinner. Add a side of meat. Very flexible.

[Red_Devil 232]

Some great info and recipes at that link you provided! Thanks

[afraidfortherepublic]

Has Jack enjoyed working on all the projects?

[afraidfortherepublic]

Yes. I want to try the Asparagus-Cheese Strata. I actually stole the newspaper with all these articles from the local fast food restaurant, (it was on the way to the garbage) but then I found the whole feature published on line and wanted to share. It kept me from re-typing all of it.

[afraidfortherepublic]

More tomato lore:

How to Freeze Tomatoes From Your Garden

The above is a link to an illustrated page on preserving and handling fresh tomatoes.

[Black Agnes]

You post the best links about food. I’m going to make one of those tomato pies this weekend. Think I’ll use cojack.

[left that other site]

Growing Season is still in the future here in S. Florida...Too hot!

[SouthDixie]

cleaning/saving tomato seeds with oxy-clean

When I first read this, I thought whoa, oxiclean to clean tomato seeds, how interesting but is it safe? I use oxiclean however never bothered to read the label. I see it contains hydrogen peroxide and since H2O2 is edible it makes perfect sense.

Thanks for the great tip!

[momtothree]

Hi, Red Devil! For anyone interested in the article about saving tomato seeds and the Oxy Clean... click on the site and then click on “saving tomato seeds” on the left. Just as a side note, I love the Oxy Clean product and can’t tell you how many clothes that I have saved because of using it. That is neither here nor there but a helpful tidbit.

[momtothree]

Red Devil loves blondes? Or, Blondes have more fun with Red Devil? I guess I can blend the two and call it “Strawberry Blonde Bodacious Beer”. (I should stop now before I get into trouble!)

[who knows what evil?]

I have been using this Oxi-Clean method on tomato seeds all week...works like a charm! Instead of having dozens of yogurt cups and such containing yucky fermenting glop all over the kitchen; I can clean thousands of seeds every day, and keep them neatly stacked on paper plates in a bay window. My wife is tickled pink!

[Ellendra]

I have an interesting puzzle for the gardeners here. The two fruits in this picture came from the same vine, a week apart. The pint of pickles is there for scale:



The long one is what it should be, this is a zucchetta rampicante vine, a type of italian zucchinni. But what I don't understand is why all of a sudden the vine started growing hard, round, melon-or-pumpkin-looking fruits that start cracking before the blossoms even open, instead of these long, tender squash. This was the only round one I was able to pick, the others started rotting on the vine. Right now there aren't any fruits on that vine, and all the flower buds I can see are male. Any ideas what's causing this?

PS: It's not a pollination thing, the blossoms on both these fruits had only just opened when I picked them.

[lysie]

Thanks Red. I don't post often , but I read this thread and enjoy.

On the stove is a huge pot of 'maters simmering for sauce to can.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Thank you and good luck.

[who knows what evil?]

Ditto...we’ve been pumping out roasted tomato sauce all week...

[tubebender]

Hey any of y’all have a suggestion for a name for my homemade beer? It will be months before this beer is ready to drink

Rd Devil #1

[tubebender]

My lone tomato plant came down with late blight 2 days ago due the change in the weather just as it was setting up more maters. The blight also wiped out the late potatoes but they had time to form some good spuds already. The blueberries are done for the year as are the Raspberries unless i get a late crop this year but the strawberries are still producing a quart every other day although they aren't as yummy as they were earlier.

We cooked our first corm on Monday and it was a little immature but it is near it's peak now and coming on fast. People we haven't seen since last year are showing to "check on our welfare" and then the question "Oh by the way, how is the corn doing". They know I don't grow Zucchini so they have no fear.

Some of you may remember I spoke of a volunteer potato growing next to the fence and compost pile a few months ago. Well I dug it up yesterday and this is the harvest of the Yukon Gold. There are a lot of Redwood tree feeder roots and they were intertwined with the spuds or there may have been more...

This is one result of the roots...

My garden helper deadheaded the Dahlias and filled 2 wheelbarrows like this for the compost pile...

[agrace]

Great link, thanks for posting.

[Ellendra]

despite the fact that I cant stand the gel stuff around the seeds, this sounds like it might taste pretty good!

Try stuffer tomatoes. They look like bell peppers inside and out, which means the seeds are easily removed just by cutting out the stem.

[afraidfortherepublic]

You’re very welcome.