THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Sunday, October 22, 1995               TAG: 9510200094
SECTION: HOME                     PAGE: G1   EDITION: FINAL 
COLUMN: REMINDERS
SOURCE: ROBERT STIFFLER
                                             LENGTH: Short :   39 lines

PICK GREEN TOMATOES AND PEPPERS FOR USE LATER

PICK MATURE GREEN or ripe tomatoes and peppers before a killing frost. The use of a synthetic-fiber row cover such as Reemay may help speed up the ripening of tomatoes during cool weather as well as provide some frost protection. Store the vegetables in a cool, dark room. Place tomatoes in a warmer room when you want them to ripen. It's been proven that wrapping green tomatoes in old newspapers is unnecessary and provides no benefits.

Sweet peppers can be washed, cut in sections, seeds removed and frozen in freezer bags for use all winter in cooking. Mature hot peppers can be strung and hung or dried and placed in a closed container. An attic is an ideal place. Making small slits in hot peppers encourages them to dry. ROUNDUP BERMUDA GRASS

Research shows that this is one of the most effective times to use Roundup to eradicate Bermuda grass. But time is short. Roundup, Kleenup and other herbicides containing glyphosate, must be used when a plant is growing. By Nov. 1, most growing in this area has stopped. Using Roundup after that date will not be very effective, if at all. ILLUSTRATION: Color photo

TOM TYE

THE GREAT PUMPKIN

Jimmy White of Suffolk won second place at the Virginia State Fair

with this 284-pound pumpkin. The first-place pumpkin weighed a

record-breaking 464 pounds.

by CNB