Long Keeper Tomatoes

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I was wondering how everyone stores tomatoes through the fall. We have grown a variety called Long Keeper. When there is a threat of frost, we are sure to cover them in the garden. They're harvested green and stored on a shelf in the root cellar, not touching each other. Some do spoil but we have also been lucky enough to have them for Christmas dinner one year. Just wondering if anyone else has tried this variety and what luck they have had. Thanks, Charleen

-- Charleen (harperhill@eznet.net), August 25, 2001

Answers

I have never tried the Long Keeper variety. I ususally just pull the entire tomatoe plant and hang in the root cellar. The tomatoes ripen slowly and I have too had ripe tomatoes in December.But, I do get some that go bad. I will have to give the Long Keeper a try next year.

-- Barb (Barb43@countrylife .net), August 25, 2001.

I planted the LK's for the 1st time this year. I will be reading this post to see how others do it.

-- Debbie T in N.C. (rdtyner@mindspring.com), August 25, 2001.

We used them as regular tomatoes until late in the season. For storage I picked ours late in the season when they were beginning to show some color and left them in a cardboard box lined with newspaper (for easy clean up if some should go bad before I realized it) and kept them in a cooler room in the basement. We actually had some for New Year's Day but it would have been easy to eat more of them.

They don't taste like a summer tomato but they beat grocery store offerings by a landslide.

-- marilyn (rainbow@ktis.net), August 26, 2001.


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