Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jerry might have an idea as to how to keep that blight from forming. ;-) Jim Douglas Sharp wrote: > Ours ripen ok, but as soon as they ripen they get tomato blight, the > skins go translucent and very hard. > > I didn't fancy spraying them with copper sulphate, so I pulled them out > and incinerated them - the spores must be in the soil though, the next > year's crop was the same. > > Cheers > Douglas > > Jim Hemenway wrote: > >> Daniel and Douglas: >> >> If you heat your homes with a basement furnace of some sort, so that >> the basement never gets below freezing, then pull the tomato >> plant/vine up by its roots and hang it upside down in said basement. >> >> Then place a small brown paper (am not certain that they have to be >> brown) bag over each green tomato and fasten it almost tightly around >> the stem. I tried clear plastic sandwich bags once without very much >> success >> >> Almost all of them will ripen nicely during the fall/winter. Yes, >> they will! >> >> Between now and next summer, see if you can procure some "Frisco >> Fogger" seeds which don't need much sun to grow and ripen. I grew >> lots of these when I lived in the SF Bay Area. >> >> Jim >> >> >> >> Daniel Ridings wrote: >> >>> It looks absolutely lovely! >>> >>> I can never get them to ripen this far north. We can get them to bear >>> fruit, but there's never enough time for them to get ready for the >>> table like this one. Nothing from the store can ever taste like one of >>> these. >>> >>> Daniel >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Lottermoser George >>> <imagist3@mac.com> wrote: >>> >>>> <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=481> >>>> click on image for larger view >>>> >>>> 65 elmar, visoflex, M8, 180th second, f:5.6, auto ISO 640 >>>> >>>> Fond regards, >>>> George >>>> >>>> george@imagist.com >>>> http://www.imagist.com >>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog >>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >