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What am I going to do with 4 six foot tall tomato plants?

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Memento Vivere

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Inject them with sentient nanite networks!

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Pasta Sauce?

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Do you know the breed?

If you want to know how the manage the plants, you've probably got yourself an indeterminate breed of tomatoes since you are saying they are 6 foot tall. They grow like a vine, not a bush. (These are too high maintenance if you ask me.) Get a strong trellis, or at least some sort of tall cage you can wrap them around. Make sure you sucker them to help grow better tomatoes. (Pinch off any little baby branches or "suckers" that start to grow in the V of two other main branches. These won't make decent tomatoes anyway.) Note - you usually do NOT want to sucker the plants if they are a determinate (bush) variety.

So when you pick your tomatoes, get a pot of boiling water, and a bowl of ice water. Drop em in the boiling water for about 1 minute (long enough to loosen the skin, not long enough to cook them), then quickly move them into the ice water for another minute or two. The skin will peel right off. Chop them into wedges. Pull out the seeds and pulp and save this. Use the rest of the tomato meat for cooking. Put the seedy goo into a bowl with an inch of water on top. Leave it to sit somewhere undisturbed. After three days, skim the scum off the tomato seed bowl and dispose of it. Also dispose of any floating seeds, you only want the sinkers. Refill with a little more water. Repeat until there is no more scum. Drain the seeds and dry them on a paper towel in a shallow bowl for another week or two, turning occasionally. Bag the seeds, and drop in a label for the plant name and growing season (Tomatoes - Spring 2011).

Once all that's done, the cooking options are endless. Are you looking for recipes?

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What do you do with the plants? Well, you could take and put a stake at both ends of the row, take twine/string and go from one pole to the other, weaving it back and forth thru the plants. Repeat higher or lower, until you have support for the entire plant(s).

Also, week mat or even plain black garbage bags at the bottom around the Earth keeps in moisture and keeps out weeds.

If you are talking about the actual bounty.....be happy? Tomato sammiches are always a welcome site. If you have a huge amount, can some for winter.

There is an easy way to do this.....sterilize jars, stew tomatoes, heat lids in water. Place a clean, dry jar on a dry towel in the microwave and heat for 20? seconds (depending on your microwave's ability). This will heat the jar a lot, so remove carefully. Spoon in tomatoes, add a large pinch of salt, place heated lid on jar and let cool/seal. You now have canned tomatoes

Hope you fare well with the plants. I have had many years where I fought blossom rot, bugs, diseases, etc. I once lost 80 plants in a season.

mmm. Taamatoes.

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I make fresh Pico de Gallo. Tomatoes, Red Onion, fresh cilantro, lime juice and salt. Heat add --Jalapeno

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ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

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I got 4 different varieties: Beefmaster, Better Boy, Juliet, and Celebrity.

This year I put together a raised garden bed, put a four foot dog-proof cage around it and followed the instructions from Square Foot Gardening. When the tomato plants grew, I was pleased. When they made it to three feet I was happy. When they made it to four feet, I was surprised, and added some five foot tall wire fencing around the group to support them. Then they grew above the fencing. Now they are taller than my back yard fence, covered with green tomatoes, and are the talk of the neighborhood.

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That sandbar was not there yesterday!

Overheard in Squirrel Girl's neighborhood

Anonymous: How do you think she gets the tomaters to grow so tall?

Bnonymous: Well, she was a doctor and she recently retired all of a sudden. You think it might be the fertilizer?"

Anonymous: Why would those two things be related"

Bnonymous: Well, we're always hearing reports about missing old folk with all that alzyhammers goin' round . . .

Anonymous: You don't think she brought some of her work home with her?

Bnonymous: Ya never know, just saying. . .

Note: The preceding is purely fictional and any resemblance to anyone in Texas is purely coincidental

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Why did I think this would be a thread containing input from Taamar?

Micheal, can I offer you some...wine?

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Memento Vivere

I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

Of course you can my dear Doctor.

I played Teddy in that show many years ago. Lots of fun.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

If your green tomatoes don't ripen put them in a brown paper bag out in the sun and they should in about two days.

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"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky