Tomatoes, when we lived WI and MN, huge two family gardens. Fresh tomatoes when we had them and we canned juice, whole, katsup, spaghetti sauce for the rest of the year, we even dried them. Something I picked up in Europe, grilled tomatoes for breakfast a mainstay in my house now.
The worst place to grow tomatoes coastal PNW, never enough sun or warmth, even cherry the matoes were iffy.
Here in the SW, it is strange, I plant early and get to matoes in May then the pants go dormant through the 100+ temps, now the days have dropped into the 90s and the plants are putting on fruit and I'll have tomatoes into Nov.
Back before my time my ex-wifes family live in Rochester MN and in the spring they would go down to the sewer pond and dig up newly sprouted tomatoes plants for the garden, seems tomatoe seed would go through the purification process unharmed and sprout on the banks when the weather warmed
Last edited by oskar; 08/25/25 04:55 PM.
