Posted by Mark Anderson on August 24, 2003, 5:28 pm
I'm getting some tomatoes coming from the vine where one half is very red
and the other half is very green. I picked those and put them in a paper
bag but was wondering how to eat those. Should I cut it in half, eat the
red part, and then wait for the green part to turn red?
BTW: Most of the tomatoes ripen evenly.
Posted by Kswck on August 24, 2003, 7:06 pm
Wait till they are ripe all the way around.
Mark Anderson wrote:
> I'm getting some tomatoes coming from the vine where one half is very red
> and the other half is very green. I picked those and put them in a paper
> bag but was wondering how to eat those. Should I cut it in half, eat the
> red part, and then wait for the green part to turn red?
>
> BTW: Most of the tomatoes ripen evenly.
>
>
Posted by Pat Meadows on August 25, 2003, 7:46 am
wrote:
>I would agree with that.
>One thought... Too much exposure to sun can make some tomatoes ripen
>funny. Usually you see it on the top (around the stem) leaving an area
>that never ripens normally. I wonder if the sun exposed side is the part
>that stays green when it happens in your garden. Have you lost some
>leaves to disease this year?
>Steve in the Adirondacks
>PS This is my first post to this group. I started reading it 2 days
>ago. I don't know why I didn't check into this group earlier. I always
>grow a garden and have fruit trees as well.
Welcome aboard!
I've wondered about the Adirondacks and gardening: we're in
the Appalachians in north central Pennsylvania and our last
expected frost is around May 31 (hahahahaha - two of the
three years we've lived here, we've had killing frosts in
mid-June) and our first expected frost is around October 1.
Is your season similar to that, or even shorter?
Pat
--
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry
Posted by Pat Meadows on August 26, 2003, 9:22 am
wrote:
>Thank you Pat.
>Our season is similar to yours ONLY because I am lucky enough to live on
>the waterfront of a warm shallow lake. There were already warnings of
>scattered frost just 2 days ago. May 31 is often considered the frost
>free date here but people who live away from the lake have years where
>there is frost every month of the summer. (If not for the lake, I'm not
>sure I would bother trying to garden at all.)
>My average last frost is just about October 1st. I know people who live
>in a "frost pocket" and they rarely get past the end of August without a
>frost. Thank goodness for micro climates.
Old-timers here tell me that there has been frost every
single month of the year. I believe it, but haven't lived
here that long. It often goes into the low 40s at night in
summer, and occasionally high 30s, that's for sure. Not
good for heat-loving plants.
Do you have a hoophouse?
We're planning on building one this fall (although we may be
moving, which will set the hoophouse plans back, probably
until next spring.)
Pat
Posted by Pam Rudd on August 26, 2003, 10:37 pm
When last we left our heros, on Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:22:37 -0400,
<it's cold up there>
>Old-timers here tell me that there has been frost every
>single month of the year. I believe it, but haven't lived
>here that long. It often goes into the low 40s at night in
>summer, and occasionally high 30s, that's for sure. Not
>good for heat-loving plants.
Not good for heat-loving folks either! I've been up that way
on vacation for the past two summers, and if it's that cold
in the summer, I don't even wanna think about winter! I was
in Upstate New York in April, and it *snowed*!
Do you know how dangerous it is for a Southerner to be out
in a heavy snow storm? We're like that old urban legend (Hi Pan)
about turkeys in a rainstorm. We stand in the falling snow, arms
stretched out to catch the snow flakes, head back and mouth
agape. And we'll stand there until they start to announce school
closings or someone drags us back inside.
I don't know how people survive where it's that cold that long!
Pam, Fair Flower of Southern Femininity
--
"Maybe you'd like to ask the Wizard for a heart."
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> and the other half is very green. I picked those and put them in a paper
> bag but was wondering how to eat those. Should I cut it in half, eat the
> red part, and then wait for the green part to turn red?
>
> BTW: Most of the tomatoes ripen evenly.
>
>