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harder than Seattle
Sunday, June 7th, 2009

I thought last year that four tomato plants (five once the volunteer Roma got going) might be too much for the two of us. It’s really hard to have too many roasted tomatoes, though. With two or three more plants, we would probably have needed to start using them in more ways, making our own spaghetti sauce maybe. The two we have now, though nice for garnishing salads and breakfast eggenues (*sigh* I miss Avenue Bread), don’t produce enough to cook with very much.

We picked everything near red to make our first batch of roasted tomatoes, currently in the oven.

Though we do not have blossom end rot, like last year, the tomato plants aren’t looking the greatest. We lost a couple of fruits to cracking and then bugs getting inside.

The yellow summer squash tried to bloom again last week, still with tiny, unhappy leaves. This week, all three squash plants are pretty much dead.

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3 responses to “harder than Seattle”

  1. Have you seen those upside down tomato growing things? You should get one, try it out, and let me know. So then I can get one.

  2. zanna says:

    I have seen them in catalogs, not yet in person. Jorge Garcia (Hugo on Lost) has not had good luck with them: http://dispatchesfromtheisland.blogspot.com/2008/11/consumer-test-results-topsy-turvy.html. However, his normal tomatoes don’t look all that great to me either. Not that we are doing any better right now.

  3. you know, I should have checked this response before posting my other.

    Is hard to argue with Hugo.

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