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How to Ripen Green Tomatoes at the Season's End
This day always comes: It's early September and green tomatoes abound.
So much green fruit, heavy on the vines.
This fruit would most likely not ripen before frost.
With a little foresight and a bit of effort, you'll ripen more tomatoes than you otherwise might. Photo credit: Markus Spiske.
I'm honored to share our strategies to encourage our tomatoes to ripen at the end of the season, how to enjoy your green tomatoes in the kitchen as well as set you up for success for next season.
Ripening Tomatoes on the Vine
Give them a trim!
With scissors, garden shears or large pruners, trim your vines all the way back to the green fruit. Six weeks before last frost is your optimum window to maximize your harvest. Suddenly, your plants will
- Focus their energy on ripening fruit rather than continuing to blossom;
- Invite more light into depths of the plant, helping fruit ripen, as well as
- Experience greater air flow, which discourages the spread...
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In the meantime, let's talk soil building :)
3 Easy Ways to Boost Your Garden Fertility This Spring
So much depends on the seeds you sow. And when you sow them. And how.
If you nail these things but plant into poor soil, you still won't be successful.
Here are three of the best amendments you can add to build soil fertility in your garden:
Organic Compost is magic. It is the work of untold billions of organisms, mostly microscopic, turning proverbial trash into treasure. How to compost well is a whole other subject, but here is the bottom-line: if your compost...
5 Keys to Preventing Tomato Disease (there is no silver bullet, but #1 is close)
5 Keys to Preventing Tomato Disease
(there is no silver bullet, but #1 is close)
Whether you hope to harvest 10 or 10,000 tomatoes, diseases like Late Blight, Early Blight and Septoria Leaf Spot are affecting your abundance every season here in the Northeast.
Here are the 5 keys to preventing tomato disease:
1. Start with disease-resistant seeds.
Sowing seeds with natural genetic resistance to these diseases is the single greatest thing you can do to increase your success whether you are an organic or conventional grower.
Often flavorful heirlooms have little disease resistance and modern varieties with tons of disease resistance have little remarkable flavor. There are exceptions though, and here are some:
Chiapas
A delicious heirloom tomato that shares the classic tomato genus but belongs to a separate species, so it has some natural resistance to many diseases.
Brandywise
A brand new hybrid slicing tomato with impressive resistance to Late Blight, Septoria Leaf Spot...
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