Today’s our first frost date, and I haven’t had a single ripe tomato yet. Time to break out the plant covers and cross my fingers.

I usually make green tomato relish. What are your favorite green tomato canning recipes?

  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Shit you have tomatoes? Mine haven’t even done much yet and our first frost is anytime now as well, but it’s also typically the hottest month… meaning yeah 36c during the day, but can also freeze and/or snow the next day.

    We had an super late frost as well as well as a heat wave, so anything cold weather bolted and anything hot weather got stunted for a bit.

    • ChaosCoati@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yeah it was a weird growing season. I’ve got about 12 tomatoes between 2 plants. One plant I grabbed from the store’s cherry tomato section this spring and didn’t notice until I got home its tag said Big Boy. Since it’s about a 40 minute drive to town I decided to just plant it and hope for the best.

      I grow mine in planter boxes and usually get 55 day varieties. And I try to get the plants in about mid-May under plastic tents to get a jump start.