Not the frosted bottle, but the white bottle is the one they call "gold" and it is in clear plastic package. I mispelled it above....its Fini 12 Year Old
Posted on 01/14/2008 8:44:44 AM PST by T-Bird45
Now, about "home-growed" garlic...one of my colleagues is a truly expert garlic gardener. There's a weekly Farmer's Market hereabouts during the summer and a small bakery nearby. He gets up early on Saturday morning, sets up his little booth, gets some fresh creamery butter, and - no, he doesn't sell it, he gives away the garlic bread. And sells the garlic.
If I don't get there before 10:00 AM he's sold out. Every time.
Carolyn
Catalpa Ridge Farm
4/1/07:
The Heirloom Tomato Transplant Sales are just around the corner!!! We currently have 80 varieties of Heirloom & Hybrid Tomatoes, including a limited number of the variety Ramapo. We received from Rutgers University, some Ramapo Tomato (heritage hybrid) seeds. This variety was known as the “true Jersey tomato” 30 years ago. A lot has been mentioned about heirloom tomato varieties, but there are also some excellent hybrid varieties that have gone by the wayside. This will be our first year growing the Ramapo Tomatoes and we look forward to your feedback on this an our other heritage hybrids.
We pretty much need to have tomatoes done and harvested by late April or early May or our desert sun/heat ruins the fruit.......too much of a good thing, I guess.
I did some studying of this and get the impression that cooking tomatoes greatly enhances the lycopene's effects.
More tomato news;
My wife has a green thumb and has been growing Big Boy tomatoes at every place we've ever lived, including in the postage stamp sized back yard we have now. She always grows enough to have fresh sliced tomatoes with dinner every night during the summer. Life wouldn't be the same without them.
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“When I go to the farmer’s market my kids just start eating the tomatoes straight off the pile, all gone except the stem bit, except one of the kids eats that too. The owner gets a kick out of it every time. I guess kids devouring fresh tomatoes as if they were candy is a rare sight.”
I really am sure you are a great person.
Having said that, I must set the record straight for all those owners of farmers’ markets out there. I know; we used to own one.
Kids coming into their stores and freely grazing on their produce is their biggest Pet Peeve!
Sure, they’re smiling on the outside. They don’t wish to offend. But check out their tongues and you’ll see bleeding.
Not the frosted bottle, but the white bottle is the one they call "gold" and it is in clear plastic package. I mispelled it above....its Fini 12 Year Old
My late Grandpa, “Paw Teener” grew the best Tomatoes ever. The rows of his garden were littered with the remains of eaten tomatoes. We would stand in the rows with a shaker of salt and consume the crop like locusts....
That's a "sink sandwich"....so juicy you have to eat it over the sink.
Yikes, that’s cold. I’ve spent my entire life in the South, can’t imagine that kind of cold.
I still have parsley growing in my garden outside. We had three days of 10-15 degree weather (that’s major cold here, and we get a day to three days a year only of that kind of weather)but my parsley survived, as I mulched it heavily.
I also have some herbs growing in my kitchen window. I am so ready for spring, can’t imagine surviving the long and extremely cold weather up north.
We’ve also had some exceptionally warm weather days recently, in the 60s in January. My daffadils are pushing through the ground, and that always makes me want to go outside and start digging in the ground to plant things. Problem is, I always jump the gun and plant too early, so this year I’m going to try very hard to be patient.
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All this joy out of 24 plants!
I love tomatos but can’t grow them to save my life. I wish TrappedInLiberalHell were still with us to participate on this thread......he had his own tomato website.
My neighbor has come up with the "lazy man's" approach to growing tomatoes and it solves two problems with trying to grow tomatoes in the Florida Panhandle coast.
Problem one is poor sandy soil. He solves this by buying one fifty pound bag of good growing soil at Walmart for each tomato plant he buys. He then cuts a big X on the top of each bag and plants the tomatoes in the opening.
He says that when he waters them "they stay watered"...unlike the usual results in this sandy soil where you water them and two hours later they are drooping over as all the water rapidly seeped through the sand and the plants just got a sip of it in passing.
Problem number two is excess sun...it can ruin tomatoes very quickly here. With his "tomatoes growing out of sacks" system, he can move them to a location with better shade if needed. They seem to prefer full sun in the morning and some shade during the heat of the day.
I grew a crop of tomatoes in my backyard last summer.
I will never buy those red things they sell in the supermarkets, never.
In more temperate winters, it’s always fun to brush the snow aside and find my little parsley plants. They are certainly hardy! No such luck this year though, this deep freeze will do them in.
I envy you folks in the Southern environs. What keeps us here is family and the promise of spring. The ‘hardy’ mentality gets a little harder to swallow the older I get. LOL
Here are a few of the places I get my heirloom seed. Just do a google.
johnny’s selected seeds
seed savers exchange
totally tomatoes
tomatofest.com
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