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tessa
head gardener
Australia
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 Posted - 04/01/2009 : 20:02:26
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here we have today's haul
blimey.
i wish i liked tomatoes more.
this one rival's richard's...
it was yum...but i'm beginning to tire of tomatoes. 
i grew my biggest one EVER...a stump of the world
so that's 12 3/8 ounces...or in romulan, that's 350 grams.
my first real grub's has finally arrived
can't wait to try this one!
a few cukes to wash it all down with
and big beef continues to amaze me with its health, vigor and production:
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2009 : 20:19:20
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They all look so good Tessa, you have quite a variety there and some big ones..
I know that feeling, I cannot look at a pumpkin these days and we are picking six or seven cukes every day now and I am getting sick of them too
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2009 : 20:45:13
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Tessa ,What delicious looking tomatoes , I 'll have mine on the grain bread with cracked black pepper and a drizzle of virgin olive oil. No hurry just give me a yell when its ready.Pitta.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2009 : 21:30:11
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LOL pitta.
i wonder...is it legal for me to mail tomatoes inter-state?
if i picked them while they're just starting to blush...
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2009 : 04:27:34
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I think you have worked out this growing tomatos and other vegies in pots now, well done 
I can see lots of tomato pasta sauce soon 
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2009 : 06:14:34
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Well I picked my first real haul last night. The problem is that one tomato in particular is more than 6 feet high with a mass of tomatoes in the top foot or more and she/ he is tied in a very peculiar manner to a string balanced along the top. One really big tomato and it is ready for my breakfast now. A mass of very tiny - as long as my thumb or shorter - romas b ut maybe they do not get bigger? And corn - I ate a cob last night and it was delicious and gave a mound of tommies and corn cobs to my guests. And cukes.
I know I know ... photos are not easy for me for many reasons. I thought they would never ripen.
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2009 : 07:53:27
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pamela...you had enough corn to give away????
how was it? were the kernels all the way from one end to the next? was it sweeter than you could have imagined?
how satisfying to grow corn. it is the one thing that i cannot achieve here at the moment.
oh gosh.
i just thought about trying it again for a minute.
must dash outside to have another look.
i got a complete visual of your 6' precariously tied tomato vine. i have a few like that too. LOL.
the romas may not get bigger. some can be small (like the windowbox variety), some can be larger. how recently are they set? sometimes they swell a bit in size maybe two weeks before ripening.
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2009 : 09:46:19
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Pamela, you're going well too I freeze any excess corn cobs... too nice to give away... or am I being greedy   I have given some to the inlaws so I can share if I have to not that I have anything in the vegie garden at the moment - out of two lots of 20+ corn seeds I planted I had only 3 plants come up... but those 3 plants have 3 cobs each 
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2009 : 10:48:59
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Very nice Tessa, so many already, your lucky
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
Melbourne |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2009 : 11:02:52
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OK I will go out and take a photo of my corn. I had one cob last night and had the other one cold for lunch. Needed no butter as it was as sweet as butter. I grew them from seed - planted by a very capable WOOFER from Gympie - and there are a lot in a one metre x one metre patch - about 30 plants - mostly with 2 cobs per plant and all kernels were yellow from end to end.
The kernels were smaller than some I have bought in the supermarket but soooooooooo sweet. As I said, I just boiled them last night and the one from the frig cold was even nicer now with lunch.
Come and visit Tessa!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2009 : 11:05:06
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Do you wrap the cob and green leaves around it in cling wrap Gail to freeze?
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2009 : 11:55:24
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No I wouldn't Pamela..
I used to cut mine in chunks and put them in bags I dont trust click wrap on veggies in my freezer it has a bad habit of undoing.. And of course I blame the other person living in the house
Another nine cukes this morning the chooks are loving us at the moment..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2009 : 12:09:43
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STOP bragging ladies  
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
Melbourne |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2009 : 12:29:13
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Shame you live so far away Cheryl..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2009 : 12:31:27
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might just have to nick out the front later on and take an udated pic of my Peaches 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2009 : 12:36:33
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I cut the cobs into meal size pieces, usually in half, and quickly blanch in boiling water for a minute or two, plunge into cold water than spread onto trays and put in the freezer to stop them sticking together. When they are frozen, I put into air-tight containers. I find plastic bags or cling wrap doesn't keep them as well - either open up, tear a hole in them, inclined to get freezer burn, etc. I do this to most vegies I have a glut of.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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tessie's tomato report, stardate 4109