Posted on 05/23/2014 12:40:08 PM PDT by greeneyes
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One of the advantages of finding and sticking with one reliable producer.
That one? It's a roma. That one is too... ;)
/johnny
Who's going to water your garden? Keep the squirrels at bay?
/johnny
/johnny
“sticking with one reliable producer”
This year is planting numerous kinds to determine which will be the most reliable for me. I have so many tomatoes on those various plants now, I can’t believe I did it from seed and actually have tomatoes.
If it hadn’t been for you, I wouldn’t have one tomato or anything else out there, including those large tobacco plants.
Indeed! They are heirloom. I didn’t discover them until about three years ago. Now I am hooked.
“Who’s going to water your garden? Keep the squirrels at bay?”
The plants are so water logged, they should be okay for a while even if there is no more rain. Tomorrow, I’m putting netting over all the producing tomato plants. I have a few cucumbers to pick and will take those with me.
/johnny
Does that happen to guys too? I quit dating because I would get stupider in direct proportion to the progress of the romance. So now I herd cats.
/johnny
I hope you will be pleased with the rio grande tomatoes, that they will do well for you. All my high desert gardening friends have made the switch from roma to rio grande.
“That tingly feeling you get when you fall in love is common sense leaving your body. ;)”
The scientific name is hormone Oxytocin. It beats sitting here alone day after day. Going to two casinos in Oklahoma in a big bus with a house in it, Class A RV., think pretty much Greyhound size. And you and sockmonkey want me to stay home to put water on plants? Ahh, no.
Perhaps your picker is broken.
Next time pick ones that already own a house, or a farm, or a place by the sea.
Well, in a two week camping trip, you will probably figure out if you are a match or not.
/johnny
/johnny
or get a plant sitter
“in a two week camping trip,”
I wouldn’t call it camping as we’ll be in town, not the woods, and in casinos. The bus is the hotel.
I don’t do camping in the woods or by a lake - any of that stuff where mosquitos and other critters bite or sting me.
“At least take the plants with you....”
Right, not a problem - move 135 containers into the bus.
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