Tomatoes You'll Never Plant Again - Part III
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Comments (142)Hello Lissa, Welcome to the forum. I think you'll like it here. I hope your family's pressure canner is usable. Most pressure canners have long, long lives. It's just a matter of checking and sometimes replacing an inexpensive part or two, as long as it's a common brand. I included a link to Bejay's earlier post. She was asking about citrus pectin, but I provided a comparison to apple pectin, which is more common. Certainly you can make your own. Apples are easily available and make excellent pectin stock. Some people make a strong stock; some make apple jelly, which can then be used as regular jelly or can be used with other fruits to help them jell. If you look around the forum you'll find lots of interesting threads. When you have a question, just ask away. Carol Here is a link that might be useful: Using and Preserving Natural Pectin...See MoreWhat Have You Put Up 2008 Part III
Comments (105)Sneaking in under the wire for 2008 is my holiday gift activity: Sugared Cranberries - three cups Carol's Sweet 'n Hot Confetti Jelly - two one-cup jars and eight half-cup jars Madras Pickled Eggplant Indian Cucumber Relish Thai Chili Sauce - four one-cup jars of each of the above, for putting into gift baskets for four couples I usually exchange gifts with at New Year's Indonesian Satay Sauce - eight one-cup jars (also for the gift baskets-- I was bummed not to have leftovers of the last three recipes for myself, so I made this one a triple batch, and it came out even more than expected) Carol, the Hab jelly went over particularly well. I canned one of the cups in one of those low, sturdy wide-mouth jars called a "salmon jar," and gave it with a matching jar of Roasted Red Pepper Spread to my 22-year-old nephew and his girlfriend, who is in pastry chef school. I packaged them with a box of nice crackers, some cream cheese, and a couple of little dip bowls and spreading knives. This went over VERY well; these guys are in their first-ever apartment together, and I think liked getting the same kind of homemade food package I gave my middle-aged siblings, as they are feeling very grown up in their own household these days. My nephew is in one of those stages young men seem to go through of exploring Hot Sauces (loves to boast about how many scoville units he withstood yesterday, etc.), so he was thrilled with the hab jelly, especially since I told him it was made a little extra hot with him in mind, and he should be careful what guests he served it to. (Nothing like a hint of danger to perk up a Christmas gift when you are 22!) ;-) Zabby, wondering if she can squeeze in one more little batch of cranberry sauce before the new year........See MoreToamtoes in Oklahoma: Part III, Successful Growth
Comments (8)Hi Terrence! I hope that you and Mrs. Plantermunn are doing well. And thanks for the "good reading" comment. I LIKE Bloody Butcher. It produces lots and lots of tomatoes per plant and they are pretty early. They have good tomato flavor. Someone told me once that they thought Bloody Butcher and Fourth of July were essentially the same, but I don't think that is true. I think Bloody Butcher tastes a LOT better. The fruit are small (ping pong to a little less than tennis ball size) but you get lots of them! Cherokee Purple. I had trouble the first two years I tried to grow this one, but from the third year on, it has been great. WONDERFUL flavor. If I could only grow 5 varieties every year, one of them would be Cherokee Purple. By the way, I also grow Cherokee Green and Cherokee Chocolate. They all taste the same--the difference in them, I guess, is just the color of the skin. Christmas Grape is just an typical red grape-type tomato. I don't mean that in a negative way either--it is very productive and has the usual grape tomato taste. Yellow Pear is a very pretty tomato. It looks great in a salad, especially when mixed in with cherry or grape tomatoes in other colors. Its flavor is mild and sweet and it produces nonstop in my garden. Sometimes it has so many fruit that I get tired of picking them. It is not my favorite small yellow tomato, but it is worth growing. People seem very divided on it--either they love it or they hate it. My DH's boss loves it, so I grew it just for him for years and years. Now, I'd rather grow Ildi. For what it is worth, some years (the wetter years) yellow pear tomatoes split a lot, but not so much in drier years. If you've never grown SunGold, I think it is much better than Yellow Pear, with a sweeter, richer flavor. Garden Peach is a unique tomato, with an almost fruity flavor. Kellogg's Breakfast is very good, but in my garden, the similar Nebraska Wedding has superior production and flavor. It is interesting that most people who love KB won't even talk about NW and vice versa. I don't know why. This year I am going to grow them side by side and do a serious comparison. (Most years I have grown one of them one year and the other the next year. I want to taste them as grown side-by-side and see which one "wins".) Golden Jubilee has been a real winner in my garden. It has everything you want--great disease resistance, great flavor, the ability to keep pumping out tomatoes in our hottest weather, and the golden tomatoes are so pretty to look at too. Delicious was one of the biggest tomato-growing disappointments in my life. Maybe you will have a better experience. I wasn't trying to grow a record-setting tomato like Gordon Graham's, but just thought that a tomato named "Delicious" had to taste good. Well, as grown in my garden in an admittedly wet year, it was not that delicious in flavor, and I never grew it again. You'll have to let me know how it does for you. Green Zebra was interesting to look at, but I wasn't really crazy about the flavor. The only Green-When-Ripe tomato that I truly adore, though, is Aunt Ruby's German Green. It has a really unique, almost spicey flavor that is hard to describe. Maybe it is just me, but green-when-ripe tomatoes always seem to be less tasty than I'd expected. Well, Cherokee Green is an exception, because it tastes JUST LIKE Cherokee Purple....the only difference being the skin color! I haven't grown Fuzzy Peach so cannot comment on it. This year I am growing Wapsipinicon Peach. Keep in mind, Terrence, that what tastes good to my taste buds could taste entirely different to yours. Also, I think different varieties taste differently when grown in different soils and even different growing conditions. To me, too, tomatoes grown in hotter, drier weather always have better flavor. I hope you have a great tomato crop this year. Which tomatoes are you going to make juice out of? Dawn...See MoreSupermarket Tomato Plants III
Comments (19)Just calling it what it is - a bunch of photos of some tomato plants of an unknown variety, unknown origin, and with no distinguishing characteristics whatsoever. We could all post a bunch of pics of tomato plants at various stages of growth but what would be the point? Despite previous comments and questions you never clarify just what it is there is to see or learn from any of these pics. Why on the forum? Ehat do they teach others? What is it you are trying to learn or to show? What is the point of keeping three different threads running at the same time with these photos when there is no distinguishable difference between them and no explanation provided? Just want to document them? Great. Lots of photo storage sites available online for you to use. Just want to prove that supermarket tomato seeds can be germinated? Fine. We all know that. Just want to show that tomato plants can be grown in cut off pop bottles? Fine but what about all the other growing conditions? Bottom line - what is the point? Dave...See Morenugrdnnut
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