Hello From Pa

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GrowingFun
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Location: Pa zone 5b

Hello From Pa

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Post: # 145334Unread post GrowingFun
Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:21 pm

Hi everyone,
I enjoy gardening (especially tomatoes). Last year canned over 50 quarts of tomatoes and over 50 pints of tomato sauce.

Thank you for letting me join the forum.

Have a good day everyone!!!!!
Pa Zone 5b

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worth1
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Location: 25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas

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Post: # 145336Unread post worth1
Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:45 pm

You're more than welcome and howdy from Central Texas.
Worth
25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.

You can't argue with a closed mind.
You might as well be arguing with a cat.

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Whwoz
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Location: Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia

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Post: # 145337Unread post Whwoz
Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:50 pm

Welcome to the Junction from Down Under @GrowingFun

Homegrwoninillinois
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Post: # 145339Unread post Homegrwoninillinois
Tue Feb 18, 2025 8:02 pm

Welcome from Northern Illinois. I also love preserving our harvests.

~Sam
Tomato and pepper collector :D Zone 6a, Northern Illinois.

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Post: # 145346Unread post leftylogan
Tue Feb 18, 2025 8:40 pm

Welcome! That's a lot of canning 😮
~Logan
Phoenix Metro

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Tue Feb 18, 2025 10:14 pm

Welcome to the forum!
Woodbury, NJ zone 7a/7b

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MissS
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Post: # 145359Unread post MissS
Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:22 am

Welcome to the Junction @GrowingFun. Isn't it great to have a fun hobby that puts food on the table too!
~ Patti ~
AKA ~ Hooper

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GoDawgs
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Post: # 145363Unread post GoDawgs
Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:42 am

Welcome to the Junction from down here in Georgia!

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rdback
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Post: # 145370Unread post rdback
Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:27 am

Welcome to TJ, @GrowingFun! Pull up a keyboard and stay a while. 8-)

Gardadore
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Location: NE PA zone 6

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Post: # 145380Unread post Gardadore
Wed Feb 19, 2025 9:28 am

Welcome from NE Pa! You obviously had a great tomato season last summer! I am from 6A-B. What are your favorite varieties?

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GrowingFun
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Post: # 145395Unread post GrowingFun
Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:55 am

Hello Gardadore,
Because I can a lot my main crop is Amish Paste. Planted 20 plants staked and pruned to a single trunk. Also working on an experiment. I purchased a hybrid tomato from a local produce stand called Primo red,
then saved seed and I’m on my 3 year of growing them. So far it remains true to the original tomato. It’s determinate and bears heavy amounts of medium size round red fruits that a very meaty. One negative is it is not very disease resistant. Mid to late season the vines start to die back.
Other tomatoes I like are Green Giant , Paul Robeson and Brandywine.
Pa Zone 5b

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TX-TomatoBug
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Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:06 am

Hello @GrowingFun! Welcome from another central TX tomato lover.
~Diane

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Post: # 145476Unread post Cornelius_Gotchberg
Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:48 am

Welcome from America's Dairyland!
GrowingFun wrote: Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:55 am Because I can a lot my main crop is AMISH PASTE.(bolds/caps/italics mine)
A WESconsin variety!

The Gotch
Madison WESconsin/Growing Zone 5-A/Raised beds above the Midvale Heights spade-caking clay in the 77 Square Miles surrounded by A Sea Of Reality

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Shule
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Post: # 145477Unread post Shule
Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:53 am

@GrowingFun
Welcome! It's always great to have more people who like to can. :)
Location: SW Idaho, USA
Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet

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Harry Cabluck
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Post: # 145530Unread post Harry Cabluck
Thu Feb 20, 2025 4:11 pm

Welcome from another part of central Texas...Austin. Experienced great success growing tomatoes for a few years while living in Pittsburgh.
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