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Post by blackox on Jan 28, 2014 17:40:43 GMT -5
So kind of like the White Wonder tomatoes having a little bit of a red blush on the blossom end? It's been a while since I've picked tomatoes but I usually don't go around sniffing them. With how much my nose screams "Jew!" I find that I really don't have a good sense of smell.
I've been over the syndrome for a few years. I've never liked tomatoes before I started growing my own, now I could eat them just about everyday. So far I've tried just about every color except for green and many of the multi-colored ones. Now that I know how to find the ripe ones I'll be after them. I should be getting some Tasmanian Chocolate tomatoes from a HG trade in another month or so, very excited to try them.
I've got Japanese Black Trifele to try this year. I saw some pictures of the sliced in half tomato, read that they had a chocolate-like flavor - had to have them.
I'd feel bad to have you send some tomato seeds half way across the world and have you get nothing on your end - all of that postage money adds up. I have a list of what I have on "Iva's 2014 Trade List" if you want to set up a trade.
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Post by steev on Jan 28, 2014 21:43:12 GMT -5
I was watching "Victorian Kitchen Garden" (my kinda porn!) and I noted that they were picking tomatoes by snapping them off with the stems attached. I've always picked tomatoes when they release the whole green attachment, thinking that shows ripeness, as well as the stubs not damaging other tomatoes when basketed, rather than layered in flats.
Granted, I've learned there are some tomatoes you just have to not take off cleanly, as they will split, like some cherries, but cut in trusses.
Blackox: are you sure your nose doesn't scream "Italian"?
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Post by blackox on Jan 29, 2014 20:58:36 GMT -5
I don't think so Steev. I myself have heard it say "A-Jew!" I have never heard it say "A-Italian!"
My nose is smart enough to use proper grammar.
It's always possible though.
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Post by steev on Jan 30, 2014 3:13:32 GMT -5
Lord! My nose says the same, despite my being clearly a Krauto-Kelt.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 30, 2014 12:04:51 GMT -5
That Black Trifele sounds really interesting. Must put that on my list for next year. So many tomatoes, so little time. Hey can one of you guys post a photo of it?
Not the nose, the tomato.
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Post by blackox on Jan 30, 2014 16:48:28 GMT -5
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Post by templeton on Jan 30, 2014 20:31:38 GMT -5
JBT is PL, pretty robust in my garden, looks a bit like a big roma with a swollen bottom. Nice robust taste, doesn't have a huge bench life, can go a bit floury after a few hot days in the kitchen. My favourite black tomato. Came out of a research institute in Siberia, I think. None ripe yet, so no new pics. Will post some when they ripen. T
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Post by steev on Jan 30, 2014 23:12:46 GMT -5
I think the greatest benefit of the end of the Cold War (aside from easing the threat of nuclear armageddon) has been access to Eastern Bloc breeding and varieties, so much wonderful stuff, especially species that have been largely ignored in the West.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 31, 2014 12:53:20 GMT -5
Not on topic, is there anything we can do to help you in Oz fight this?
SYDNEY (AP) -- The government agency that oversees Australia's Great Barrier Reef on Friday approved a plan to dump vast swathes of sediment on the reef as part of a major coal port expansion — a decision that environmentalists say will endanger one of the world's most fragile ecosystems.
The federal government in December approved the expansion of the Abbot Point coal port in northern Queensland, which requires a massive dredging operation to make way for ships entering and exiting the port. About 3 million cubic meters (106 million cubic feet) of dredged mud will be dumped within the marine park under the plan.
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Post by steev on Jan 31, 2014 15:28:08 GMT -5
What?! Ocean warming and acidification isn't destroying the reefs fast enough?
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Post by nathanp on Jan 31, 2014 19:13:37 GMT -5
Bad glyphosphate, badSpeaking of reefs, I was just reading this today. Blaming glyphosphate for the decline of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Post by templeton on Jan 31, 2014 19:30:39 GMT -5
Not on topic, is there anything we can do to help you in Oz fight this? . Not a whole lot. Relatively new govt, elected on an"Australia, Open For business" platform. Very little detail in their manifesto, but this is par for the course. The aproval of the port expansion a month or two ago flagged that they would take this next step. Mining interests, flagging chinese economy, with knock on to Aust, and the promise of 15000 jobs, very canny flamboyant billionaire mining magnate who just got elected to parliament, and who looks slike holding the balance of power when they change over in 5 months... this early in an election cycle and the hard headedness 'tough guy' image of the conservative side of politics means they won't pay a lot of attention to protest. I gnash my teeth, and console myself that it is a huge reef, annd this is a smallish area, outside the coral zone... global warming and acidification are more of an issue... t
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