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Post by lavandulagirl on Feb 3, 2010 10:01:31 GMT -5
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 3, 2010 10:17:51 GMT -5
Oh lookie, something to replace those cardboard tomatoes found on grocery shelves in January, lolol
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Post by mjc on Feb 3, 2010 10:33:07 GMT -5
Modern science needs to relearn that just because you can doesn't mean you should...this is a definitely a case of SHOULD NOT!!!! How long before this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=36NgK-vJc1M
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Post by sandbar on Feb 3, 2010 23:40:27 GMT -5
Um, if you want a storage tomato, just grow Longkeeper. My crop died last year due to the blight, but the year before I ate my last Longkeeper in January. That mater lasted about 90 days off the vine. Longkeeper is not long on taste, though. However, it certainly did not taste any worse than the gassed garbage in the grocery store. Besides, it was organic and I knew where it came from! BTW, not to sidetrack this thread, but I noticed organic peppers in the grocery store from ... Israel! And, Spain! I LIVE IN OHIO!! What is this stuff doing on our supermarket shelves? THAT'S CRAZY!!! That food had a LONG BOAT RIDE to get here! How nutritious is that stuff now? And, what were they gassed with to keep from rotting on the ride? Insanity ... but, I digress.
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Post by bunkie on Feb 4, 2010 10:51:37 GMT -5
i know sandbar! our stores have been labeling where the food comes from for the last 2 years and it's amazing where you find what comes from! blech is righ lav! this kinda said it all for me...
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Post by ceara on Feb 4, 2010 11:18:39 GMT -5
Last week I cut open a store bought tomato that had been "fresh" for way too long. And I found all the seeds inside had germinated. Something was definitely wrong with that tomato. Never seen anything like that before.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 4, 2010 11:49:44 GMT -5
Ceara, that happened with several squash that I overwintered in 2008. I never thought about that happening either. Fruits/veggies are often considered best to be overripe to save seed, but I guess there's a time when they become too ripe and they try to clone themselves?
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Post by ceara on Feb 4, 2010 12:12:25 GMT -5
This tomato was not "ripe" as in falling apart, oozing juice everywhere. It was firm, like a relatively just ripe tomato. Not green but not mega ripe either. I thought it was normal until I cut off the top. Took a picture. hehe Just haven't downloaded it off the camera yet.
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Post by grunt on Feb 5, 2010 4:35:08 GMT -5
ceara: The first time we grew green grape, most of the fruit had seeds that were sprouting, right off the vine, and not particularly over ripe fruit at that.
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Post by kctomato on Feb 5, 2010 11:28:44 GMT -5
'Longkeeper' contains one of the same genes exploited to make the supermarket tomatoes last longer.
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Post by ottawagardener on Feb 16, 2010 16:48:31 GMT -5
I've grown Mystery Keeper and it kept, I kid you not, until the following year. After the first six months, I wouldn't have eaten it. It wasn't off just kinda off putting.
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Post by sandbar on Feb 20, 2010 4:53:21 GMT -5
'Longkeeper' contains one of the same genes exploited to make the supermarket tomatoes last longer. It's normally bred, isn't it? Non-GMO, I thought.
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Post by mjc on Feb 20, 2010 7:12:50 GMT -5
Yes, 'Longkeeper' is normally bred...and so are the supermarket tomatoes.
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Post by seedywen on Feb 21, 2010 22:18:08 GMT -5
Have grown Longkeeper many times, for it's general claim to fame.
However it's rarely kept much past the 1st of February. That's just about when all that fresh fall, canned, dried and frozen tomatoes etc. start to taste real good.
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Post by ottawagardener on Mar 8, 2010 7:33:37 GMT -5
Mystery Keeper was a found tomato and it really keeps a long, long, long time. I actually underestimated the amount of time I had some sitting on my counter so I wouldn't seem like a loon. However, I have moved onto what Seedy said: enjoying dried, canned and frozen tomates that time of year. Though I am intrigued by producing some window sill tomatoes just to produce my own tasteless red globes
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