{"id":6864,"date":"2012-08-20T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T18:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T22:13:04","slug":"my-convincing-argument-grafted-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2012\/08\/my-convincing-argument-grafted-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"My Convincing Argument – Grafted Tomatoes Prove That Their Worth It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MASSIVE FLOWER TRUSSES ON A GRAFTED SWEET 100 TOMATO PLANT – 7 FEET TALL, AND NO SIGN OF FALL BLIGHT – ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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I have been so impressed with grafted tomatoes, that I wonder why I still grow conventional plants. I guarantee that in 5 years, all of you will be raising grafted tomatoes, and not seed-raised home grown plants. Grafted tomatoes are not new, since grafting peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers is a common p practice for greenhouse crop growers, and the method has been used for years in Japan and Europe. The concept is simple, graft a tasty, or heirloom variety onto a rootstalk that has been selected for vigor and root making. The result? Bigger plants, bigger yields and bigger tomatoes. Grafted plants can handle stress better and they are far more resistant to blights, which if anything, is the main reason why I would choose grafted plants over traditional un-grafted plants.<\/p>\n
LOOK AT THE FLOWER TRUSSES AT THE TOP OF THE GRAFTED TOMATO ON THE LEFT. THE PLANTS ON THE RIGHT ARE SEED RAISED IN MY GREENHOUSE.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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MY SEED RAISED TOMATOES ARE SUFFERING WITH LATE BLIGHT, WHICH STARTED A FEW WEEKS AGO. SO SAD, BUT, THE GREEN TOMATOES WILL MAKE GREAT PICKLES.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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THIS YELLOW GRAPE TOMATO HAS BEEN THE HIT OF THE SEASON. ‘GOLDEN SWEET F1’ IS A VARIETY THAT I WILL GROW AGAIN. THE BEST PART? THIS SAME VARIETY SELLS FOR $5.99 A PINT AT OUR LOCAL FARM STAND! IT HAS BEEN PROLIFIC, AND, THE FLAVOR IS EXTRAORDINARILY SWEET.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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THE TOMATO CROP THIS YEAR IS JUST STARTING, ANY ALTHOUGH NOT THE BEST YEAR FOR TOMATOES, IT IS ALSO NOT THE WORST YEAR.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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ON THE LEFT, PICKLED CAULIFLOWER (REFRIGERATOR FRESH PICKLES) – ON THE RIGHT, GINGER, GARLIC AND CURRY PICKLED CAULIFLOWER (TO BE FERMENTED). I USED BlACK PEARL CHILI’S SINCE I DID NOT HAVE ANY OTHER CHILI PEPPERS THAT WERE RED YET. THEY’LL WORK FINE.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\nI felt so compelled to ‘put something up’, and I really don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I always remember my parents doing it – there was hardly a late summer day when we were not canning somethings when I was a kid. I mean, my mother was almost obsessive about it – no, she WAS obsessive about it. We never just canned willy nilly, when harvest time came, we seriously canned – as if we were preparing for the apaocolyse. We would never starve, since we could live on hundreds of quarts of Bread and Butter pickles. So, I guess as the crops of late summer arrive, it comes as no surprise that I should want to can a few pints of pickled beets, pickles and tomatoes. <\/div>\n
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\nToday I canned a few quarts of cauliflower. I didn’t grow it, it came from our local farmers market, but everything else came from the garden. The heirloom garlic, the peppers, even the coriander seed heads. These are fresh pickles – I mean, they are being fermented, but not processed – so they are not cooked. I like my pickles to be crispy. Both recipes are from THE JOY OF PICKLING by Linda Ziedrich. Next week, I will start making some of my mothers pickles – recipes that were handed down from her father, who was born in 1889. Pickles are like gifts from the past – the recipes are handed down, generation to generation – I love using the old crocks that are in the cellar, that were my grandparents. They have held pickled green tomatoes and sauerkraut ever year since 1910, but I also like to add a few new pickles to the list – Japanese pickles, German pickles and this year, some Indian inspired pickles such as the ones above.<\/div>\n
MASSIVE FLOWER TRUSSES ON A GRAFTED SWEET 100 TOMATO PLANT – 7 FEET TALL, AND NO SIGN OF FALL BLIGHT – ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-6864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-vegetables"],"yoast_head":"\n
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