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Tomato Soup is a freak of nature

14 years ago

My Tomato Soup are still blooming here is Pa. These plants are freakin crazy! The rest of my echinacea are brown and dry, except my TS and Harvest Moon. I cannot believe how my TS have grown since bought in July. It is simply amazing!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

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kentstar
14 years ago
When did you plant it? Wow! Mine are all way long since sleeping for winter now and nice and cozy under their mulch. It IS a beauty though! I just planted it this year and hope to get more blooms next spring and summer.
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mayhem69
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14 years ago
Planted 2 small 12 inch 2 flower plants beginning of July and both plants had about 20 flowers each and quadrupled in size. I have them planted in full sun and they are planted where it is not too dry. Alot of them had deformed petals, seems like the roots couldn't catch up. I'll be interested to see what happens next summer.
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Do you think it might be just a natural separation of tomato solids and liquids? I sometimes get a thin layer of "different looking stuff" on top of plain canned tomatoes depending on what variety I've used. Obviously, no oil is involved :-) I just twirl the jars around after I've taken the rings off (not tilting jars) and almost always, the layer of "stuff" disappears and gets suspended back into the contents. Might be worth a try?
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again, thank you everyone. All the suggestions worked out great. We had plenty of food. As I did not mix up everything, the leftovers will be more manageable. Everything was good, expect I cooked the cake little long and it was dry side but it seemed to have been hit independent. It ended up much longer evening than I anticipated, everyone stayed well into the dark and last people left after 10 pm. So from that I assume everyone had good time as well. Luckily weather cooperated as well, no rain at all the last 4 days. Now my hands and back hurt from all the prep work and running around yesterday, so next couple of days I at least "plan" to take it easy. We have been invited to Xmas even party and asked to bring fruit cake. I have never made one, and if I recall correctly, these are quit dry as well. Anyway, after brief rest, I will be hunting for perfect fruit cake recipe.
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Cinjos - I just came across this on Houzz. I thought you might have been the start of a new trend but they beat you to it! [[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/santa-cecilia-light-granite-traditional-kitchen-charlotte-phvw-vp~8993833) [Traditional Kitchen[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional-kitchen-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_709~s_2107) by Charlotte Kitchen & Bath Designers Fireplace & Granite Distributors
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Oh, yes, do roast the tomatoes. Also, overripe is better than underripe, and choose the heaviest ones for the size that you can find. If they're not a deep ripe red, and you don't think they'll ripen further, skip it and make red pepper soup instead. Really. A bland tomato will give you bland soup. I've never had the Progresso, but I've made this Ina Garten recipe a few times and it's quite good. If you want to bump up the tomatoiness of a tomato soup, you can add tomato powder or paste. That's just concentrated tomato. Equivalent of adding a bunch more tomatoes which you've cooked down to nothing. ;) The Progresso ingredients have a lot of sugar and salt, as well as acids to balance with, and also "natural flavor" which is usually code for MSG. Try some dried mushroom powder to bump up the umami.
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perennialfan273
14 years ago
That is just not normal...but so cool at the same time! If only Mac n Cheese was the same...
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torajima
14 years ago
No echinacea blooming here, but one of my agastache plants is still blooming.

And last year I had an 'annual' dianthus bloom all winter long. A hard freeze would kill the flowers, but every time we had a warm day more would open.
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coolplantsguy
14 years ago
I have also found that late-planted Echinacea seem to bloom much later than the more established plants. Ditto for self-sown seedlings. Although, for me colour was present through mid-November (which was an incredibly mild month here), not into early December! ;)
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