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a very small cake... wafer thin...
A Seed Saver's Garden
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a very small cake... wafer thin...
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Merry Christmas Everybody, Pretty Beans To You.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS to you too @Blue-Jay! And a HAPPY NEW YEAR full of beautiful seeds soon to come! 
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I just checked on my long keeper tomatoes. Let's see, we're almost January now so that would make them about 4 months old from 'pick' date. They still look absolutely perfect. This is really wild! I sort of thought that the rule of 'don't let them touch in storage' was a bit over the top, but I can see now the Zhiraf tomatoes are changing color based on exposure to the air around them. Where they touch on the cardboard underneath (I laid them stem side down) they are not changing color as much! So I guess there may be good reason afterall to make sure that air is circulating around them. That said, I know some of them are not that flat and are rolling around a little on the cardboard flats when I lift them to peek in.
My bet is that these tomatoes will dehydrate like raisins before going bad, at least I think the smaller ones will dehydrate if I keep them until June. They are really looking all quite impervious to perishing, quite a feat for such a juicy vegetable stored at room temperature. Will post pics the next time I check on them. Too much Christmas exhaustion to do that for now, lol.
My bet is that these tomatoes will dehydrate like raisins before going bad, at least I think the smaller ones will dehydrate if I keep them until June. They are really looking all quite impervious to perishing, quite a feat for such a juicy vegetable stored at room temperature. Will post pics the next time I check on them. Too much Christmas exhaustion to do that for now, lol.
