"Billy" wrote in message
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"Steve Peek" wrote:

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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"The Cook" wrote in message

I can plain tomatoes, various pasta sauces, salsa, relishes. If it
was listed in a canning book I probably tried it. Also gave away a
lot.

Have you ever made tomato jam?

Tomato jam is the best use for all the green ones left on the plant at
the
end of season when you pull them out. Yum.

David
I remember my grandmother making a green tomato pie that was quite like
apple. It's been many years but I think I'm remembering correctly.
Steve

I have 2 Armenian cukes that look like they have wilt. Right next to
them are 2 lemon cukes who seem to be doing OK except for the 2
Romanesco cukes, right next to them, that turned out to be zuchs. Putain.
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/m...515308172.html

The cucumber beetles seem to love the Armenians more than cantaloupes here.
I can't grow either. The toughest ones seem to be the pickling cukes.
Planting them and judicious use of pyrethrum is the only way to get enough
for pickling.

It's my understanding that the only way to break the cycle is to stop
growing all cucurbits and corn for several years. The beetle larvae feed on
the corn roots then the adults feed on the cucurbits.

Steve