Richard mix, grex experiments - Melons

[Richard]

@jens

I’m going to side track very briefly - are you hanging your tomatoes for storage? It looks like they’re in a nylon stocking. Is this in your pantry or in the other location? I’ve never seen this and I’m curious about how well it works.

I commented here a little bit of my long term tomatoes.

Zero Input Agriculture- Plant Profile: Tomato

Of course. We call them hanging or scrub/mob/bouquet tomato (colgar/fregar for Spanish or penjar/fregar/ramallet for Catalan). Most of the time we eat scrubbed on a toast with olive oil, some ham, cheese or any cured meat or sausages. You can also scrub some garlic on top of it to give it extra flavor. The toast from the bread is typically made from whole-wheat flour, hard exterior with soft interior. Something like this but more whole wheat instead of white bread. At home, we put seeds on th…

I am still eating my tomatoes every day from the summer, probably from August.
I got a couple locations to store my this type of long term food. My tomatoes are near my melons and pumpkins.

I am in very humid weather, so ventilation is number one priority. I do not put this food in the pantry, I use a couple very low traffic site, I found human interaction makes food root, like mold, probably from breathing?