Hot weather = cooked tomatoes?

[juliebove]

Our weather here has been close to 100. I normally keep my tomatoes in a basket at room temp. because I've read that putting them in the fridge kills the taste. I did refrigerate a few of them hoping to get them to last me a few days. The ones left out are rotting very quickly.

Well, I just cut up one of the room temp. ones and ate it, but it tasted cooked. :mad: Not good at all. Wasn't mushy. Was still firm. Just had that taste of a canned tomato. Very strange.

I also picked a pepper from one of my plants and put it in the fridge. It looked fine when I picked it, but when I took it out a couple out hours later to eat it, it was all mushy.

Is it possi ble that my veggies are being cooked due to the heat in the air?

[rawpriestess]

If they are on the vine, they can handle alot of heat, just think that they grow in the Mediteranian, when on the vine, they can get water from the soil, and are still growing, still living, but once they are picked, they start to die, so they will go mushy quickly, the heat lately has been challenging, I've put my peppers and things in the fridge too.


and we are only picking the fruit we will eat that day, not putting any in the kithchen, it is just too hot.

we actually are sleeping with the air conditioning on, as we can't sleep in the heat--- inside it was over 90 degrees and it is after midnight. YIKES!!!

[juliebove]

If they are on the vine, they can handle alot of heat, just think that they grow in the Mediteranian, when on the vine, they can get water from the soil, and are still growing, still living, but once they are picked, they start to die, so they will go mushy quickly, the heat lately has been challenging, I've put my peppers and things in the fridge too.


and we are only picking the fruit we will eat that day, not putting any in the kithchen, it is just too hot.

we actually are sleeping with the air conditioning on, as we can't sleep in the heat--- inside it was over 90 degrees and it is after midnight. YIKES!!!

It's 90 in here but we have no AC. We used to have a window unit but I gave it away. It wouldn't work with the type of windows we have. Not very well anyway, and there would be no way to make the windows secure with it in. We've already been robbed once. Can't really even leave the windows open!

I bought the tomatoes. I have tons on the vine, but they're not ripe yet. I felt like I needed to pick the pepper because the critters around here are eating things at night.

I am hoping it will cool off day after tomorrow. We've been spending our time hanging out in various stores and stuff. Places with AC. I've bought everything I could possibly buy with the exception of a pair of Van's for my daughter. We're going tomorrow to get those. Will see how much time we can kill at the mall. I can't believe I'm actually looking forward to going to the mall! I considered hopping on a ferry but on the weekend that's never a wise choice.

[rawpriestess]

We have only large windows that don't open, I took all the smaller opening windows out and added french doors to all the rooms, a few years ago.

But Dragggon put in three AC window units for me, he cut a hole in the wall, and put it in there, it works great that way.

[juliebove]

We have only large windows that don't open, I took all the smaller opening windows out and added french doors to all the rooms, a few years ago.

But Dragggon put in three AC window units for me, he cut a hole in the wall, and put it in there, it works great that way.

I hadn't considered cutting a hole in the wall. However my husband is not at all handy so something like that could be a disaster.

I guess I shouldn't complain too much. I was living in NYC when we had that week long power outage. Temps were running around 100 then and humid. There was no fresh food anywhere! No way to chill water. The tap water was coming out hot. And then even after we did have power restored, it was another two weeks before the grocery stores could get restocked. I don't know what I would have done then had I been trying to eat a raw diet. Fresh produce just wasn't there anywhere! And the places that sold it had to take extreme measures to clean everything up before they could restock. Fruit flies were everywhere!

I also made it through several hot humid summers on Cape Cod with no AC. Finally put my foot down when I was pregnant and demanded that we get one. That's how I got the one we did have. Put it in one little bedroom and moved right in there. At least there it cooled down at night. It's not doing that here.

Last night it cooled down to about 80 outside. But when I went out there I kept getting mosquitoes buzzing around me and I accidentally sniffed one up my nose. :mad: