Winter weather and tomatoes.....?
I know some of you guys already have "winter" weather and are having to deal with it, even as I type this, but last night Fall fell with Mucho Gusto here in the Basin.
I woke up this morning to temperatures of 20* with my window open and the fan on...my old nose was cold, and I was very thankful for having a warm bed at that very moment.
But, there was no signs of frost. I mean the heavy white icy stuff that typically accompanies such drastic overnight temperature drops.
In fact, although the tomato vines are in sad, sad, shape this morning, the green tomatoes, with which they are still covered, "seem" okay and that's my question to all you Farmers and Gardner's....are they really okay, if I do something with them today and tomorrow????
This past week my wife canned several more pints of Green Pickle Relish and I have really developed a taste for this stuff and, of course, I would like to use up what tomatoes are left....if my tomatoes are still okay.
Should I forget it and just pull them out of the ground, or is it possible to save the Tomatoes that's left?
BTW: I hope I got this in the right place.
Russ...
Fried Green Tomatoes...it's whats for Supper.
Well I "saved" a few but the majority are gone....
We had Fried Green Tomatoes for Supper, and if they were hurt, I was not smart enough to see it. They tasted just fine.
I have about a bushel or so fairly nice that I picked, and I left more than that on the vine. It seemed to me that those getting close, or fairly close, to being ripe were the ones most affected..and when I sliced the green ones for supper the reason for that observation seemed fairly clear. The ripper the tomato gets, the thinner the outside skin becomes, or so it seemed.
So all was not lost, at least I learned a little something.
Anyway, my child bride and I discussed this a just minute and the conclusion was to toss the rest and not worry about them, she asked why in the world was I was worried about it, as it seemed more a matter of pride to me, and to just get it out of my head.
After fifty years of marriage I have found her to be right on more than just one occasion, so I suspect she just may very well be right again. For some unknown reason, it now seems I did want to save 'em if I could. LOL Silly old me!
Russ