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OK, in many areas and if you grow figs (What?!! You don't grow figs?!!), time is coming soon to have to wrap and winterize your fig trees. My fig trees have gown to be too big and too horizontal and getting very difficult to wrap. I am reshaping the trees using jacks from my shop. Each day I give each jack a little turn so that I don't crack and break the branches. I think I should be able to get all the branches to vertical and be able to wrap them to be less than 12 inches columns. Good winter protection means greater harvest next year. It fig ures. dcarch

Actually, this has a possibility to work for you: Go to youtube and search for "thin set tile laying". You will see tools and how construction workers spread out thin set compound evenly for laying ceramic tiles. dcarch

I do a quarter turn of the trays once in a while to give more even drying. dcarch

Very resauceful recipe! dcarch

My experiment with that container weighted about 25 Lbs. This method is not practical for some of you who live within walking distance from the farmers market or just buying a small quantity. But if you are buying in quantity, a small ice chest and a shopping cart is not that clumsy for heirloom tomatoes which can cost more than T bone steaks . dcarch

I don't think so. Water enters the fruits thru the roots and some from leaves. dcarch

Last night, I took out a large container, filled it with water and put about 20 very ripe tomatoes from my garden, some very big and some very small. I closed the contained with a lid. Then I shook and shook the container the hardest I could. I shook again for about another 5 more times. Now, I don't have huge muscles, but in the past few weeks, I have had to relocate and transported a clothes washer and a dishwasher all by myself with no problem. The shaking I did to the tomatoes were more violent than any deep potholes you would run into if you had to ship the tomatoes by car. Well I am happy to report that there is no damage to any tomatoes, not a scratch, not any sign of cracking or bruising. But I am not surprised. It's just very simple physics. I assume that if you have to ship a few hundred eggs over rough roads, the same method will work. Time for a BLT ! dcarch

This may or may not be practical, but according to the law of physics, this should work very well. Get a big container and fill it with water. Put all your tomatoes in the water bath, makes no difference how big or how small the tomatoes are. Once you have all your tomatoes in the container, fill the container to the very top with water and close the lid very tight. Your tomatoes cannot bruise each other, doesn't matter how big or how small and how fast or slow you travel or if you slam on the brake. Tomato in water submersed has almost no weight. dcarch

Frost is forcast in another day here (NY). There will be a 50F temperature drop in one day. I guess this may be my last BLT for this season. dcarch Naan bread BLT

Beautiful! Just wonderful! I have to point out that it is too bad that most of the world do not use chopsticks. The only way we can enjoy lots of different kinds of fish is to use chopstick. We are endangering ocean life by wasting so much seafood. We eat very limited varieties of fish, and only filleted fish. It's wasteful filleting fish. Thank you Liuzhou for having shown the world how many different kind of fish are delicious in you posts. dcarch

Sometimes on ebay, and Amazon. Search "shatter proof mirror" or "stainless steel mirror" dcarch

Consider this: You can get mirror finished stainless steel sheets of the same size to put in front of the glass mirror. They are thin and will not take up room. After they collected enough grease, just put the sheets in the dishwasher. dcarch

Let me answer you in a different way. For me, GWR tomatoes satisfy me in every way about tomato growing, except for one thing: You will always have difficulty finding the ripe ones on a plant. ! dcarch

What do you mean? Green as in un-ripe tomatoes? or Green as in GWR tomatoes? (Green When Ripe) GWR tomatoes never turn red. They always stay green even when fully ripen. Amazing group of tomatoes to grow. My favorite. dcarch

Thank you! We have the opposite problem. Nights are getting cold, and the tomatoes are having a tough time getting ripe. dcarch

BBLT! Some one posted a moon cake topic. So I did a little Googling. I understand that moon cakes are for the celebration of Mid Autumn Festival in many Asian countries, but they are like Western fruit cakes, moon cakes are not exactly the kind of cake you want to have one more piece. People don’t really like to eat them. They buy them mostly for gift giving. Well, Mid Autumn Festival came on Friday the 13th. I didn't think I was going to spend time to make moon cakes. Instead, I decided to have my own way to celebrate Mid Autumn Festival. Mid Autumn Festival is to celebrate harvest. I have been lucky so far with what my garden has given me this year. Lots of amazing huge tomatoes this year to be thankful for. So I think I will make a moon shaped BBLT. (Boboli, Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato) dcarch Endless tomatoes from the garden Boboli bread from the store Lettuce, arugula from the garden, squirts of mayonnaise. A blanket of very crispy bacon and, T, T, T, --- more Ts! BBLT done Divide and conquer

The real reason why a knife is not that good has to do with atmospheric pressure. When two surfaces are in close contact, there will be more than 14 lbs PSI pressure forcing the surfaces together, creating drag. dcarch

Important, if you want to plant paw paw. You will need two for pollination. dcarch

This is what I was talking about. But it was MIT, not Harvard. dcarch

I believe they have omitted some information here. A few years back I read that a university (Harvard?) science research team had come up with a new chemical treatment to plastic that make the surface kind of non stick, allowing the ketchup to pour easier. dcarch

That's why they are also called mudbugs. dcarch

Nice! That makes Spam the same as Kobe beef. dcarch

You can dehydrate watermelon. Delicious snack. dcarch

Electric cost for deep freezing that beef for 12 years comes to $1,000. dcarch

Daylily is an amazing plant. It grows in sun, in shade, in summer and in winter. It comes back every year. It requires no care, and it doesn't seem to have insect problem. Not only that it gives you pretty flowers for your garden, it is also a very nice vegetable. From Google ---"Daylilies are not only edible, they are spectacular. After sampling the flowers, flower buds, young stalks and root tubers, I've come to the conclusion that they're so tasty I may grow them as a food crop---" Every year, before I get anything from my garden early in the spring, I harvest daylily shoots. dcarch