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To: greeneyes
worked 2 hours in my garden here in Upstate NY. Cleared a center path and will put down nice soft mulch for this 75 year old body.

Oh....so much pain. ;-)

Indoor seeds are coming along. Maybe next week will plant those cool crops right in the ground...lettuce, spinach, carrots.

Last year was a huge success....Krim and Black Cherry tomatoes are now my favorites. Awesome. The Krim tend to crack, I picked them a tad early, put them in a box to ripen.

The nice part was that they ripened one or two at a time....so I had a continuous supply.

4 posted on 04/14/2019 1:22:57 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

I like to pick the tomatoes as soon as they get a bit of pink blush. Rinse them off and let dry. Then wrap in newsprint or paper towel, and let ripen. Taste a lot better than supermarket stuff.

I am 71 and hubby is 77. We know what you mean. That’s why we are converting one of the garden patches to edible perennials and much of the backyard has fruit trees and bushes.


6 posted on 04/14/2019 2:32:00 AM PDT by greeneyes
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