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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (608)	5/31/1999 6:33:00 PM
From: somethingwicked	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3496

IN THE 1500's those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food. This happened most often with tomatoes, wo they stopped eating tomatoes...for 400 years. Is it safe to go back and eat tomatoes now? Or should I just continue to drink bloody marys with the assurance that the vodka will kill the nasty tomato stuff? Replies welcomed but not necessarily expected.

To: Ilaine who wrote (608)	6/1/1999 7:52:00 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3496

I forgot to say that if you are going to use pieces of electrical conduit for tomato stakes, it ought to be the thick-walled kind. I salvaged some 20 of these from a neighbor who had decided to stop growing tomatoes, and didn't actually buy them myself. I just don't want to cause anyone to pay for thin-wall tubing and then watch it crimp and bend and break. Well, I thought you were the perfect woman until you said what you did about zucchini. Of course, one can certainly get too much zucchini, especially if you don't keep an eye on them and pick them when they are small. There is something called "malicious zucchini giving." You leave a huge overgrown zucchini on someone's doorstep, ring the bell, and run away.Then they have to decide what to do with it.