Comments on: On tomatocide http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/09/13/on-tomatocide/ This is a journal, of sorts, of an organic garden in SW Michigan. "Ut sementem feceris, ita metes: non semper erit aestas." Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:46:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Alecto http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/09/13/on-tomatocide/#comment-3708 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:54:09 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=1286#comment-3708 whimper.

]]> By: El http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/09/13/on-tomatocide/#comment-3705 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:55:00 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=1286#comment-3705 Pamela! Great suggestion. As it is, they all found good homes.

Anne, ack, yes; am getting really tired of tomato sandwiches though. (Can I even say that?)

Robin, you sneak. Even discounting all this rain or the possibility of a bad season, I still don’t know what I was thinking. But don’t look to me if a box of tomatoes shows up at your door!

Yeah, Laura, I did the same thing with broccoli this year. Enough was plenty so the plants got composted and I felt not too awful about it. Maybe more dried beans for you next year? Those you can absolutely ignore. And sorry things aren’t redding up by you. I know that can be frustrating, with frost beckoning.

Kathy, exactly! Get those babies out of there, time to make room for winter stuff. It’s still hard though.

CC, yeah, in the rain!! Made us hurry and made me not linger over the loss. Sigh.

Becky, cool. What kind of dehydrator did you get? There’s a $200 at Lehman’s that I am still weighing (hey, my oven is paid for, even if it doesn’t have a fan in it). I dried some cherry tomatoes 2 years ago and froze them as they weren’t bone-dry after their stay in the oven. They were pretty tasty. I would thaw them and run a few in the food processor with some garlic for a good blast of flavor.

]]> By: Becky http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/09/13/on-tomatocide/#comment-3702 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:05:43 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=1286#comment-3702 I’ve been trying out my new dehydrator on the tomatoes. The intensity of tomato flavor is surprising. My plants are on the way to the compost as well. It’s time to think about next year’s garden.

]]> By: cookiecrumb http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/09/13/on-tomatocide/#comment-3700 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:17:55 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=1286#comment-3700 In the rain! It’s so Hitchcockian. (Is that a word? It is now.)
I feel for you. Weep, weep.

]]> By: Kathy http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/09/13/on-tomatocide/#comment-3699 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:03:54 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=1286#comment-3699 I hear you! I just said to Kevin that today is the day, the tomato plants have to be pulled out. I can’t wait any longer for them to ripen. I have winter vegetables that need the space. eviction notice will be posted! ha!

]]> By: Laura http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/09/13/on-tomatocide/#comment-3698 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:29:58 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=1286#comment-3698 Good for you – there’s comes a point when it’s okay to cry uncle and go do something else for a while. I hit the wall with bush beans and pole beans this year. I’m still okay eating them, but I AM NOT preserving a single more bean.

You could always send your two bushels over here if you’d like – our 14 paste tomato plants are still green…

]]> By: Robin http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/09/13/on-tomatocide/#comment-3697 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:27:43 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=1286#comment-3697 …thinking…maybe if I slide my two bushels in as you’re putting yours up you won’t notice mine…. ;)

]]> By: anne http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/09/13/on-tomatocide/#comment-3696 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:21:32 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=1286#comment-3696 Eat a whole heck of a lot of tomato sandwiches! :-)

]]> By: Pamela http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/09/13/on-tomatocide/#comment-3695 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:24:14 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=1286#comment-3695 I suggest giving them to the food pantry and taking the weekend off.

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