Best way to support paste tomatoes
hairmetal4ever
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Enrichment of Tomato Paste with 6% Tomato Peel Increases Lycopene
Comments (7)A good blender can chop the skins up quite fine. I tried it with seeds as well, but the seeds and skins offered a somewhat bitter taste by themselves and the seeds didn't all chop down. I suppose you could add a bit of tomato juices when you attempt to puree the skins in a blender. Be sure that the skins are blemish free before you start. Those rolled up tomato 'twigs' are quite common, so a lot of time in the blender is necessary. It may also help to pour the blender puree though a fine sieve to ensure that you don't get the little tomato twigs into the sauce. There are also a few strains of tomatoes that are bred to offer higher nutrients, so that can also help to increase the Lycopene. I take a capsule of it daily, as I can't have too many tomatoes in my diet. You probably don't need an Urshel machine unless your dealing with many tons of tomatoes at a time. If you have a Vitamix machine, which is simply a higher powered, and reversable bladed blender, that can work OK too, but its blades are not as sharp. A regular blender can be bought for under $20, and you can do several batches of skins if you have a lot of them. One way is to cut each tomato open, and carefully dig out all the seeds, then run them through a food strainer like a Villaware/Roma/Weston model, and then take the all skin waste and place that in a blender with some of the strained sauce and blend away.. Another option is to blanch all the tomatoes to easily remove their skins for the blender, and then deal with the tomatoes seeds, water, and pulp seperately....See MoreBest or Favorite System to Support Tomatoes???
Comments (34)Cindy, I just went and measured both my CRW and my Texas cages. My CRW are 5' before I stick them in the ground 6". The Texas Cages are 6' before and 5'6" after I stick them in the ground 6". I guess you could stick them in the ground 1'. I never have a CRW. To get the 7' CRW in the past I would have to special order it or go to somewhere like Amarillo. I haven't checked in several years though. The shipping has went up since I ordered my Texas cages I think. I will check. I know she said something was going up soon. I didn't realize it was that high now. Of course all shipping is high. Shipping alone has added over 200 dollars to the cost of my greenhouse. I have had plants go over the top several feet in the past. If they get out of the cage enough they will head back down. It isn't too hard to make extensions to go on the CRW cages if needed. I have used several different styles of cages in the past. I know one grower who uses the galvanized cattle panels. Can't remember the length he cuts them. Then makes a triangle and uses plastic zip ties to hold them together. Then when he removes them they lay flat. So many ways of doing it. The galvanized will last longer. Field fencing would work. I would make sure I got the biggest openings I could find. Makes picking the maters easier. There is no one way that is best. We just have to find what works well for us. Jay...See Morebest way of supporting pepper plants
Comments (3)I think I have read that you can use tomato cages to support the peppers. But since I don't have any of those, and I am gardening on the cheap, I just took a piece of 4' bamboo, snipped it in half, and place it into the soil right behind the main stem of the pepper. When they were little I used a zip tie to very loosely fasten them to the bamboo. Then as they got bigger, I snipped off the one at the bottom because it was getting a bit snug, and fastened a new one- VERY loosely- on the main stem again but more towards the top. Important to have the stake behind the plant, so that whichever way your wind comes, the plant sort of leans back on the stake. It is working well for me so far! HTH!...See Morehow to grow indeterminate paste tomato like opalka or amish paste
Comments (2)An indeterminate is an indeterminate so you grow them just like you would any other indeterminate variety. There is no difference in the plant, just the fruit shape/size is different. So if you are into pruning indeterminates then you can prune/pinch them just like any other indeterminate. If you aren't into pruning, even better. Pruning is purely optional. ;) Any indeterminate variety needs caging or staking or support of some kind IMO - makes no difference what variety it is. Dave...See Morehairmetal4ever
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