Tomato's that over winter well...

[harleysilo]

I've read about Burpee's Long Keeper tomatoes

http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/tom...rod000978.html

I was wondering what other varieties keep exceptionally well over the winter?

I have an unfinished basement i can store them in that stays around 45% humidity and 65 degrees. I've read about pulling my plants at the end of the season and hanging them with the green tom's still on, I've yet to do it. I've never planted a second crop of tomato's but could. I usually have my beds full by then and my tomato's generally countinue to produce new tomato's through October.

I really know very little about food storage except refrigeration, and then i probably refrigerate things i shouldn't. Had some celery turn rubbery really quick the other day.

Any thought's would be appreciated!

[joseph]

Roma tomatoes often end up being the last tomatoes that I eat during the winter. I harvest fruits green just before the killing fall frosts and store them a single layer deep on a shelf in the garage.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by harleysilo

I've read about Burpee's Long Keeper tomatoes

http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/tom...rod000978.html

I was wondering what other varieties keep exceptionally well over the winter?

I have an unfinished basement i can store them in that stays around 45% humidity and 65 degrees. I've read about pulling my plants at the end of the season and hanging them with the green tom's still on, I've yet to do it. I've never planted a second crop of tomato's but could. I usually have my beds full by then and my tomato's generally countinue to produce new tomato's through October.

I really know very little about food storage except refrigeration, and then i probably refrigerate things i shouldn't. Had some celery turn rubbery really quick the other day.

Any thought's would be appreciated!

Well here's any thought.
Don't refrigerate your celery.
Put it in a jar like a wide mouth pint or something with a little water in the bottom.
Set it in a window seal and it will stay fresh until it is eaten.
It will last a very long time (a month) and may even start to grow roots.
The long keeper tomatoes sacrifice flavor.
I went to the store yesterday to get stuff for hamburgers.
Well I ended up making the things without tomatoes as all they had was half green Roma tomatoes.

Worth

[harleysilo]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Well here's any thought.
Don't refrigerate your celery.
Put it in a jar like a wide mouth pint or something with a little water in the bottom.
Set it in a window seal and it will stay fresh until it is eaten.
It will last a very long time (a month) and may even start to grow roots.
The long keeper tomatoes sacrifice flavor.
I went to the store yesterday to get stuff for hamburgers.
Well I ended up making the things without tomatoes as all they had was half green Roma tomatoes.

Worth

And you could have had your own ripening in storage potentially....tasteless as they may be....

Thanks for the advice on the celery, i don't know why i didn't know that, actually i do....i need to spend some time reading about food storage....is direct sunlight a necessity with the celery?

[artis]

Originally Posted by harleysilo

I've read about Burpee's Long Keeper tomatoes

http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/tom...rod000978.html

I was wondering what other varieties keep exceptionally well over the winter?

There are traditional Spanish tomatoes called Ramallet/Ramillete/DeColgar that supposedly keep really well during winter if picked at the right stage and stored under the right conditions:
http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/R...te_de_Mallorca

Tatiana's was the only place where I could find seeds for any of the ramalletes. Looking forward to grow Ramillete de Mallorca out this year! Curious why more people are not growing them.

There was a recent thread about ramalletes here on Tomatoville as well:
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...ghlight=colgar

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by harleysilo

And you could have had your own ripening in storage potentially....tasteless as they may be....

Thanks for the advice on the celery, i don't know why i didn't know that, actually i do....i need to spend some time reading about food storage....is direct sunlight a necessity with the celery?

I suppose I could but I'm restricted to store bought right now.

As for the celery it doesn't have to have direct sunlight.
Worth

[Catherine+twin]

For a number of years I used to pull up the last plants of my Amber Colored tomatoes at the end of the summer and hang them from the roots in my laundry room, picking off the fruit as it ripened for the next month or two.

I stopped because of lack of space, not because it didn't work.

Catherine

Originally Posted by harleysilo

I've read about Burpee's Long Keeper tomatoes

I really know very little about food storage except refrigeration, and then i probably refrigerate things i shouldn't. Had some celery turn rubbery really quick the other day.

Any thought's would be appreciated!

And...if your celery already turn rubbery...submerge it, all the way, in water, and stick it back in the fridge. In less than a day it crisps right back up!!!

Who would have ever thunk...

[harleysilo]

Dang it i threw it in the compost bin.....but i'll remember that for the future....thanks!

[True Timbers]

IMO, some of the Russians that set fruit well in cool weather. I have had good luck with keeping blacks for a couple months in storage.

That long keeper tomato was.horrible for me.. In the 5 worst ever list.

[Douglas14]

Here's a link that states that Galina's were kept for a couple months:

https://www.adaptiveseeds.com/tomato-galinas-cherry

[Catherine+twin]

Originally Posted by True Timbers

IMO, some of the Russians that set fruit well in cool weather. I have had good luck with keeping blacks for a couple months in storage.

That long keeper tomato was.horrible for me.. In the 5 worst ever list.

So that goes along with my hanging the Amber Colored plants and using them that way.

Catherine