09-27-2014, 04:12 PM
Yep, that is likely the difference, you are watering 60 to 120 min a week, where as I'm watering 210 min a week. The problem is some of my garden needs more water than other parts. I recently cut my watering time down to half of what I have been watering all summer, as soon as I did that, my tomatoes started to ripen at twice the rate they had during the summer but the rest of my garden has almost stopped growing[
]. Just to get an idea how many green beans my plants were producing every other day, I was picking 150 to 200, when I cut my watering time in half that number dropped down to 30 every other day. It is starting to sound like I'm going to have to separate my garden watering times from my lawn watering time. In the past I never cared about how many tomatoes my plants produced because my wife was the only one that ate them and the rest we given away. While I hate tomatoes by themselves I love salsa, yea, I know I'm strange but it has to do with the acidity of the tomatoes. We just bought Pace salsa. After I retired, I decided to start making my own salsa but it wasn't until last year that I tried to make a batch. Since we just started to get tomatoes in the numbers needed to make salsa, we made our first batch yesterday we made 2&1/2 quarts. The tomatoes are coming on pretty strong now, so I'm guessing in another week to 10 days I'll have enough for a second batch. Not sure after that how much time I'll have to do a third batch. Last year when we heard there was going to be a killing frost we pulled all our tomatoes plants and hung them upside down in our garage, about half ripened that way and then with the ones that did not ripen we made green salsa with them. Have you every made salsa with green tomatoes? Well it turned out better than I thought it would. Maybe next year after installing the drip irrigation system I'll be able to make my salsa earlier and then give spaghetti sauce a try.
Speaking of grape juice making, we have about twice as many grapes as you do but they are a mixture of concord and green seedless grapes, with the majority being green seedless grapes. We have made juice with them but forgot about some one year, in the back of the fridge, when we remembered it a month or so later and tasted it we found it had turned to wine[angelic].
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]. Just to get an idea how many green beans my plants were producing every other day, I was picking 150 to 200, when I cut my watering time in half that number dropped down to 30 every other day. It is starting to sound like I'm going to have to separate my garden watering times from my lawn watering time. In the past I never cared about how many tomatoes my plants produced because my wife was the only one that ate them and the rest we given away. While I hate tomatoes by themselves I love salsa, yea, I know I'm strange but it has to do with the acidity of the tomatoes. We just bought Pace salsa. After I retired, I decided to start making my own salsa but it wasn't until last year that I tried to make a batch. Since we just started to get tomatoes in the numbers needed to make salsa, we made our first batch yesterday we made 2&1/2 quarts. The tomatoes are coming on pretty strong now, so I'm guessing in another week to 10 days I'll have enough for a second batch. Not sure after that how much time I'll have to do a third batch. Last year when we heard there was going to be a killing frost we pulled all our tomatoes plants and hung them upside down in our garage, about half ripened that way and then with the ones that did not ripen we made green salsa with them. Have you every made salsa with green tomatoes? Well it turned out better than I thought it would. Maybe next year after installing the drip irrigation system I'll be able to make my salsa earlier and then give spaghetti sauce a try. Speaking of grape juice making, we have about twice as many grapes as you do but they are a mixture of concord and green seedless grapes, with the majority being green seedless grapes. We have made juice with them but forgot about some one year, in the back of the fridge, when we remembered it a month or so later and tasted it we found it had turned to wine[angelic].
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