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Subject: [Leica] IMG: porch tomato w/ 65 elmar
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Wed Oct 1 15:58:47 2008
References: <B2EEA994-04D1-43B4-9603-26935678C326@mac.com> <a2f8f4470809300919v6845259fq9929b8933888b546@mail.gmail.com> <48E3F794.7060505@hemenway.com> <48E3FCDE.5010706@gmx.de>

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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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