Posts tagged: tomato
How To Use Up Your Tomato Tonnage.
By ChrisjobEarlier this summer, it seemed as if we'd never get any red tomatoes...the high amounts of precipitation kept the leaves limited and the fruit green.
But now...here they come, faster than any household can consume. Here's three ideas, quick "sun-dried" tomatoes, DIY ketchup, and an easy freezing technique, that uses your bounty to the fullest.
Make a Glowing Tomato.
By ChrisjobIt's official: Things that glow are better than things that don't. Make some.
Materials
- A box of non-safety matches
- Bleach
- A tomato
- Hydrogen peroxide
- Knife
- Small container
- Syringe
Upside Down Tomato Plant Update
By DIY Maven
It’s been about five weeks since I planted my upside down tomato plant, and, I’m very pleased to report, it’s doing great! For comparison’s sake, I planted an additional tomato plant, albeit a different variety, in the ground next to the shepherd’s hook. The plant hanging is DOUBLE the size as the one in the ground, AND the upside down plant has THREE tomatoes on it already, whereas the right side up one has none. The hanging plant did want to » READ MORE
How To Make An Upside Down Tomato Planter
By DIY MavenHave you heard the buzz about these upside down (inverted) tomatoes? You can buy pricey containers and plastic bags in an effort to try this inverted growing technique, but here’s a really inexpensive and, I think, more attractive method than the other DIY how-to’s I’ve seen.
First, find yourself a large (I used a 12") plastic hanging planter and a tomato plant. I chose a smaller fruit producing variety. Tomato Chello, specifically.
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Soup Can Label = Wrapping Paper
By DIY Maven
If you’ve found yourself with a little something to wrap for a Valentine’s gift but have no wrapping paper in the house, try using a Campbell’s soup can label.
And for those of you who think this is a stupid idea, check out the Warhol Store where you can buy 12 sheets of 20" x 30" tomato soup wrapping paper--based on Warhol's 32 Campbell's Soup Cans--for 30 bucks.
