On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:31:50 -0600, Janet B >
wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 07:53:41 -0700, sf > wrote:
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> >On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 07:57:11 -0600, Janet B >
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 05:18:48 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm going to try making some myself and found a recipe worth trying.
> >> >> Using grocery store tomatoes (that will sit on the counter and ripen
> >> >> for a few days first). If what I make tastes even remotely like this,
> >> >> I'll buy organic plum tomatoes from the farmers market next, because
> >> >> they're picked at a riper stage.
> >> >> http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/arom...asted-tomatoes
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Thanks for the link. Looks like something to try when my bumper crop comes in - ha - I don't even have the yellow flowers yet.
> >> >
> >> >Should be dynamite on toast with grated cheese on top.
> >>
> >> I have golf ball size green tomatoes and lots of flowers. We've had
> >> an o.k. spring for tomatoes. Also, I am trying this for the first
> >> time. http://tinyurl.com/olawq94 I'm impressed. I've had this stuff
> >> in the house for years and years and never got around to trying it.
> >> The plants are chest high with stems that are stout.
> >> Good Luck with your plants this year.
> >> Janet
> >
> >I'm not much of a gardener so I'm only familiar with shade fabric and
> >haven't known about anything red before this. Is the mulch cloth
> >secured between plants in any way? How do you get water to the
> >plants, is it porous?
>
> Currently there are maybe a half dozen colors of plastic mulch to
> achieve different things. The red has been around awhile and I've had
> it in my gardening closet and just never got around to it. The red
> is specifically for tomatoes and the tomato family (nightshade family
> which includes peppers, eggplant etc.) The red plastic reflects light
> that makes the tomatoes grow stronger stems and produce more and
> bigger. Normally at this time of year my tomato plants would maybe be
> knee high. Today they are shoulder high and appear to be setting
> fruit on all the blossoms instead of dropping blossoms.
> With any plastic mulch, you have to run soaker hoses beneath the
> mulch. I have been running soaker hoses to my vegetable gardens for
> probably 20 years. With soakers the water gets directly to the roots
> instead of being diverted by foliage and wind. The plastic mulches
> are not porous. You secure the plastic with landscape pins -- two
> wire legs maybe 3-4 inches long with a 1-inch crosspiece holding the
> legs together.

Thanks for the information. I'm going to pass it to my son and
son-in-law who DO garden.


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