I have 20 tomatoe plants. I've noticed that I just toss a lot of
tomatoes that can really be used for soup or stew. Guess if I only had
one plant I would salvage blems by cutting out the bad parts. However
I'm just letting produce rot if it has a little blem or if it's a
little pass prime. Well it's not total waste since it just get
recycled in the soil. It's not like stuff being tossed by businesses
that end up in a landfill.

Maybe you should get a juicer.

James wrote:
I have 20 tomatoe plants. I've noticed that I just toss a lot of
tomatoes that can really be used for soup or stew. Guess if I only had
one plant I would salvage blems by cutting out the bad parts. However
I'm just letting produce rot if it has a little blem or if it's a
little pass prime. Well it's not total waste since it just get
recycled in the soil. It's not like stuff being tossed by businesses
that end up in a landfill.

What about giving them to a local food bank or someone who cans?
Canning is a great way to save those tastey tomatoes..
Jacque
James wrote:
I have 20 tomatoe plants. I've noticed that I just toss a lot of
tomatoes that can really be used for soup or stew. Guess if I only had
one plant I would salvage blems by cutting out the bad parts. However
I'm just letting produce rot if it has a little blem or if it's a
little pass prime. Well it's not total waste since it just get
recycled in the soil. It's not like stuff being tossed by businesses
that end up in a landfill.

On 16 Sep 2006 19:26:06 -0700, "James" wrote:

I have 20 tomatoe plants. I've noticed that I just toss a lot of
tomatoes that can really be used for soup or stew. Guess if I only had
one plant I would salvage blems by cutting out the bad parts. However
I'm just letting produce rot if it has a little blem or if it's a
little pass prime. Well it's not total waste since it just get
recycled in the soil. It's not like stuff being tossed by businesses
that end up in a landfill.


I keep the tomatoes with flaws for myself, I don't mind cutting around
the bad spots. I give the perfect tomatoes to friends and co-workers
when I have extras.


You can buy a lot of good karma with a few home grown tomatoes.


Penelope
--
You have proven yourself to be the most malicious,
classless person that I've encountered in years.
- "pointed"

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:41:23 GMT, Penelope Periwinkle
wrote:

On 16 Sep 2006 19:26:06 -0700, "James" wrote:

I have 20 tomatoe plants. I've noticed that I just toss a lot of
tomatoes that can really be used for soup or stew. Guess if I only had
one plant I would salvage blems by cutting out the bad parts. However
I'm just letting produce rot if it has a little blem or if it's a
little pass prime. Well it's not total waste since it just get
recycled in the soil. It's not like stuff being tossed by businesses
that end up in a landfill.


I keep the tomatoes with flaws for myself, I don't mind cutting around
the bad spots. I give the perfect tomatoes to friends and co-workers
when I have extras.


You can buy a lot of good karma with a few home grown tomatoes.


Penelope

With almost any home grown vegetables. Many of our extras go to the
local homeless shelter. They always seem to be delighted to get it.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974

In article om,
"James" wrote:

I have 20 tomatoe plants. I've noticed that I just toss a lot of
tomatoes that can really be used for soup or stew. Guess if I only had
one plant I would salvage blems by cutting out the bad parts. However
I'm just letting produce rot if it has a little blem or if it's a
little pass prime. Well it's not total waste since it just get
recycled in the soil. It's not like stuff being tossed by businesses
that end up in a landfill.

Why not make tomato sauce out of those extra tomatoes or give them to
friends, neighbors, or co-workers? My dad has been an avid gardener for
many years and he grows lots of tomatoes on purpose. After he gets a
bumper crop of tomatoes, what he doesn't eat or give away, he makes into
homemade tomato sauce which he stores in sterilized jars. The tomato
sauce costs next to nothing to make and it lasts him and my mom for
months.

"James" wrote in message
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I have 20 tomatoe plants. I've noticed that I just toss a lot of
tomatoes that can really be used for soup or stew. Guess if I only had
one plant I would salvage blems by cutting out the bad parts. However
I'm just letting produce rot if it has a little blem or if it's a
little pass prime. Well it's not total waste since it just get
recycled in the soil. It's not like stuff being tossed by businesses
that end up in a landfill.


You could quarter them, and freeze them for cooking later.

Melissa

Melissa wrote:
"James" wrote in message
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I have 20 tomatoe plants. I've noticed that I just toss a lot of
tomatoes that can really be used for soup or stew. Guess if I only had
one plant I would salvage blems by cutting out the bad parts. However
I'm just letting produce rot if it has a little blem or if it's a
little pass prime. Well it's not total waste since it just get
recycled in the soil. It's not like stuff being tossed by businesses
that end up in a landfill.


You could quarter them, and freeze them for cooking later.

Melissa



Sauce/freeze/can
oven dry
dehydrate in a "normal" dehydrator
Smoke in a cold smoker until dry. (excellent, btw)

--
Steve

Karen Newton wrote:

Maybe you should get a juicer.

Or plant fewer plants next year. Or share with friends/ neighbors/
cow-orkers.

The cherry tomato plants I planted from seed in spring 2005 are still
bearing -- they lasted all winter. In case anybody cares, the orange
variety is sweeter than the red variety. Didn't get enough of the
yellow ones to tell.

I'm currently harvesting my basil seed. Next year I'm going to sow the
seed thickly in wallpaper trays and cut chunks of sod+seedlings to
transplant into DEEP pots. Based on this year's performance, basil
doesn't mind being crowded but loves being able to send its roots deep.
I'm also going to space the plantings out in order to get good leaves
over a longer period of time.

We'll get 'em next year.

James wrote:
I have 20 tomatoe plants. I've noticed that I just toss a lot of
tomatoes that can really be used for soup or stew. Guess if I only had
one plant I would salvage blems by cutting out the bad parts. However
I'm just letting produce rot if it has a little blem or if it's a
little pass prime. Well it's not total waste since it just get
recycled in the soil. It's not like stuff being tossed by businesses
that end up in a landfill.

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B v
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cow-orkers.

cow/pig hybrid?

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:26:06 -0700, James wrote:

I have 20 tomatoe plants. I've noticed that I just toss a lot of
tomatoes that can really be used for soup or stew. Guess if I only had
one plant I would salvage blems by cutting out the bad parts. However
I'm just letting produce rot if it has a little blem or if it's a
little pass prime. Well it's not total waste since it just get
recycled in the soil. It's not like stuff being tossed by businesses
that end up in a landfill.

I'm letting mine rot. I have 36 plants which is an insane number, next
year I'll plant a lot fewer. My freezer is completely full of spaghetti
sauce, at least two years worth. I've given tomatoes away to friends and
coworkers. Now there is nothing left to do but let them rot.

General Schvantzkoph wrote:

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:26:06 -0700, James wrote:

I have 20 tomatoe plants. I've noticed that I just toss a lot of
tomatoes that can really be used for soup or stew. Guess if I only had
one plant I would salvage blems by cutting out the bad parts. However
I'm just letting produce rot if it has a little blem or if it's a
little pass prime. Well it's not total waste since it just get
recycled in the soil. It's not like stuff being tossed by businesses
that end up in a landfill.

I'm letting mine rot. I have 36 plants which is an insane number, next
year I'll plant a lot fewer. My freezer is completely full of spaghetti
sauce, at least two years worth. I've given tomatoes away to friends and
coworkers. Now there is nothing left to do but let them rot.


Foodbank

talking 'bout food wastage.. just look at the way folks stack food up
at all ya can eat buffets and the wastage.

i wish it was like Singapore, where, in a buffet, they weigh the food
you have not eaten on your plate and make you pay extra proportionally.
!

That's interesting. Do they really do that?

wrote:
talking 'bout food wastage.. just look at the way folks stack food up
at all ya can eat buffets and the wastage.

i wish it was like Singapore, where, in a buffet, they weigh the food
you have not eaten on your plate and make you pay extra proportionally.
!

Nope.

housemouse.net wrote:
That's interesting. Do they really do that?

wrote:
talking 'bout food wastage.. just look at the way folks stack food up
at all ya can eat buffets and the wastage.

i wish it was like Singapore, where, in a buffet, they weigh the food
you have not eaten on your plate and make you pay extra
proportionally. !