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Post by paulf on Sept 11, 2019 12:46:28 GMT -5
Picked a few tomatoes this morning and one more zucchini. Who needs a few tomatoes?
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Post by carolyn on Sept 11, 2019 12:56:50 GMT -5
me me! I had hardly any outside tomatoes this year. it was crazy. I am very thankful for my high tunnel. No one seems to have many tomatoes around here. yours look really nice. Job well done.
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Post by paquebot on Sept 11, 2019 14:07:01 GMT -5
Haven't seen a harvest that looks like that in 50 years. They are all red! When I have that many, at least half are black, yellow, white, or purple with some green and bicolors to boot. I give away much that I grow and first question that I ask is if color matters.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by paulf on Sept 11, 2019 14:16:03 GMT -5
There are some yellows in there. This year I went with reds, pinks and a couple of yellows since most years I am heavy on blacks. I love blacks and hearts and bi-colors and will return to a mixture next year. Still don't do whites and greens very often. I must say that this year's varieties ALL taste as good as any year I remember. Three weeks later than normal but delicious. Can't seem to give enough away to make a dent in the harvest even though I cut way back on number of plants.
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 11, 2019 17:14:32 GMT -5
I have all reds and pinks with the exception of one Sun Sugar, one black cherry and one Cherokee Purple.
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Post by octave1 on Sept 11, 2019 21:02:37 GMT -5
paulf, I picked almost as many yesterday and I am not sure what to do with so many tomatoes. What do you do?
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Post by paulf on Sept 11, 2019 21:54:46 GMT -5
I take large boxes to our local Post Office along with plastic sacks for anyone in town to take with them. Since everyone in the village has to pick up mail at the PO lots of folks see the tomatoes (or anything else we have an abundance of). Usually not much gets thrown out. We need to freeze a bunch more and eat more
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 11, 2019 21:59:16 GMT -5
I take my excess to the local Assisted Living Home. I just weighed a box today and figured that I have taken them 130 pounds this year so far and according to the receptionist, not a single one was wasted.
There is also a church in town that offers free lunches on Wednesday's and I heard that they also accept home grown veggies.
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Post by paulf on Sept 12, 2019 1:32:29 GMT -5
Nebraska has a state law that prohibits produce being used at retirement homes that does not come from a registered produce wholesale company. Home grown produce does not have the proper government credentials. So our produce is considered a health risk but foreign grown is not, even if it was watered with sewer water and sprayed with chemicals.
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 12, 2019 7:32:42 GMT -5
Nebraska has a state law that prohibits produce being used at retirement homes that does not come from a registered produce wholesale company. Home grown produce does not have the proper government credentials. I have actually been surprised that we do not have something like this. How do they know how I grow my veggies? I tell them that it is grown organically and I wash it before taking it over there but still..... They do also run a bus to the farmer's markets once a week and those vendors are not government approved either.
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Post by paquebot on Sept 12, 2019 15:33:53 GMT -5
As long as we're telling how we share, I've already mentioned forcing two Jung's employees to spend a day canning. Now just about as much more ready to harvest. Son suggested that he take them to his hospital break room and they will quickly vanish. There's two small baskets waiting to be taken in tomorrow. I suspect that someone will ask if they can get enough for canning or salsa.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by bestofour on Sept 16, 2019 7:26:09 GMT -5
Hate for my season to be over. Not much better than a garden fresh tomato 🍅.
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