Tomatoes

Lloyd Gordon

Cactus micrografter newbie.
Staff member
I had a bad attack of powdery mildew this year. It always gets the tomatoes in late August and early September. I always just lived with it in the past, picking off the infected leaves. I found a recipe on-line: 1 gallon of water, 1 tbsp each of light mineral oil, dishsoap and baking soda. Worked amazingly well as a spray. The only thing I should have done is sprayed immediately after the mildew appeared. The badly infected leaves had significant die off (from the mildew, not the spray). The mildly infected leaves are still green after spraying.
 

Sib

Carnivorous Plant Addict
Determinate, bushy, dwarf, patio types are all safe. I have a couple I grow that fill that gap. Jax cherry bomb is a compact prolific cherry tomato, honey bee is toted as a semi determinate, so you may have to prune it more(I dont remember it being very compact lol), Bush beefsteak is bushy but not tall. Traditional romas can be bushy also.
 

Sib

Carnivorous Plant Addict
Looks like all but about 2 showed up, some of my seed is a bit old, may plant a couple more to take care of the slackers lol.

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stevebradford

Moderator
Staff member
How do you go about sun drying and storing them?
We chop the tomatoes into pieces smaller than 1inch x 1inch in a big stainless bowl then mix them with a bit of olive oil and spices. Then put them on racks in our food dehydrator for a day, it’s too humid here to sun dry them.

We also freeze some of the same sized chopped bits in bags for making tomato sauce later in the year when there is less going on.

the sun dried tomatoes make great snacks if you don’t mind chewing, awesome in pasta dishes! All the flavour of summer tomatoes in the winter.
 
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