Welcome to the meteorological fall.
In right this moment’s publication:
☁️ Your weekend climate outlook: Some showers may make Saturday a soggy one. Friday and Sunday could also be our greatest guess for excellent outdoorsy days.
— Paola Pérez (outdoorsy@inquirer.com)
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As temps cool and the rising season winds down, it’s time to chop, dry, and retailer herbs and flowers out of your backyard.
This may be certain that they final by way of fall and winter, supplying you with contemporary choices to boost your favourite recipes or get inventive with vacation decorations.
Many sorts of flowers and herbs are finest dried the wrong way up, however the course of can differ. Listed below are a couple of pro-tips to get began:
🌼 Lower flower stalks within the morning after the dew has dried. Damp cuttings may result in mould or rot.
🌿 Wash your herbs earlier than drying them. Ensure that there aren’t any bugs or residue. Allow them to air-dry for a couple of days.
🌡️ No dehydrator? No downside. It’s also possible to set your oven at a low temperature to assist dry herbs sooner. Nonetheless, you received’t need to use both technique for flowers.
Information price understanding
🎤 Now we’re passing the microphone to environmental reporter Frank Kummer.
Within the Thirties, Camden-based Campbell Soup Co. and Rutgers College collaborated to breed a tomato for the corporate’s wildly well-liked tomato soup.
That Rutgers tomato as soon as dominated the U.S. market, making up 72% of all commercially grown tomatoes. The college, and New Jersey itself, turned synonymous with the tomato.
Rutgers has continued to supply numerous massive and medium-size tomatoes over time. Now, it’s venturing into grape tomatoes.
This month, Scarlet Dawn, a candy, crack-resistant, golden grape tomato with a contact of pink, makes its debut, almost a decade within the making after being developed by Rutgers researchers Pete Nitzsche and Tom Orton. — Frank Kummer
Learn about the painstaking process behind the production of the new fruit.
A chilled view
I captured this view of the the Schuylkill River from a dock on the Philadelphia Canoe Membership.
Have you ever explored any particular spots in our area currently? What are you doing on the market? Tell me about your outdoor adventures. You would possibly see them featured in a future publication.
👋🏽 “And the summer season turned the autumn / I used to be not prepared for the winter / It makes no distinction in any respect / ’Cause I wear boots all summer long.” Nature calls.
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