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Posted by sgtdraven 6 (sgtdraven@yahoo.com) on Sun, Jan 31, 10 at 22:54
| Standing outside today there is six inches of snow on the ground and it's 30 degrees outside.During a conversation with my wife she looks at me and asks if I was crazy...I of course said no and like a dummy ask why?....She says there's six inches of snow on the ground and your standing here talking about....You guessed it guys TOMATOES |
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- Posted by hoagc 5 NW Ohio (My Page) on
Sun, Jan 31, 10 at 23:36
| I am getting that same reaction from my fiancee! haha. I feel your pain. I can't wait to get something in the ground!! |
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| I start the countdown as soon as plants are pulled from the ground at the end of the season (which we didn't even finish this year before the snow came). 8 or 9 weeks to go to seeding, another 8 or 9 weeks after that until planting, then an agonizing 8 or so weeks until eating. |
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| I started my tomato plants yesterday. My hot pepper plants are 2 inches high. Come on spring! |
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| Last week, wife and I stopped after work for a drink. The conversation drifted to the tomato seeds I was sorting and the list of plants I was agonizing over. I described some of the OP varieties I have discovered on this forum. She stopped me in mid-sentence to announce that just the descriptions were making her salivate! Com on Spring. |
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| Beats talking about politics...and a lot better for your mental health, Tomato Madness Disease notwithstanding! |
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| Two weeks ago I decided I would start my seeds in the warmth of the waterbed and we would have to sleep on the floor for several weeks. My wife said "NO WAY!" I'm gonna miss that woman. |
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| Heehee...i guess i'm lucky that my boyfriend (i hate that term, we're middle-aged and been together 9 years) is as obsessive about his little passions as i am, so we humor each other for the most part...doesn't hurt that he likes him some tomato juice (he'll down a quart in an hour) and eats more BLTs than i do. Did i mention the 20-some kinds of hot peppers he picked out for me to grow?? BTW, thanks for the Black Cherry seeds, Jeff! |
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| Hardclay there is no need for you to sleep on the floor. In a kingsize bed there is room for you, your wife, and the tomatoes. Just cut down on the tossing and turning. And put them in a plastic tub with a tight lid. |
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| Your more than welcome for the seeds...But i should say the same to you....:) |
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| alright, I think I've found the right camp here. Yeah, I'm getting those looks talking about my tomatoes so soon with the kind of weather we have right now. lol I have often thought that moving further south like Virginia or Tenn. would be nice because of warmer weather but then watching the news the last couple days.....hmmm. |
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helenh;
I presented her with your suggestion.
Now she wants to put ME in a plastic tub with a tight lid!
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| I can see some marriage counseling appointments are in order... (wink)... |
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| yeah had the same convo at walmart as as we slid sideways into the parking lot heheh / yeah the more i buy now with 12 inches of snow on the ground the less i need when its time to plant so were not running to get stuff heheheheheh |
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- Posted by bets z5A ID (My Page) on
Fri, Mar 19, 10 at 20:55
I am a grandmother who is going to college for the first time and I had what I think is the ultimate tomato conversation: A thesis! Real Tomatoes are Grown at Home In late winter, gardeners who live in gardening Zone 5 and colder start to crave "real" tomatoes. Not those pale pink, hard, gas ripened, round bred-for-shipping-not-for-flavor tomatoes that shoppers find in grocery stores, but a freshly picked tender skinned tomato still warm from the garden whose color may be a deep mahogany, rich red, bright yellow, sunny orange, verdant green or a combination of colors. That grocery store tomato may be better than no tomato at all, but it was bred to withstand the rigors of being mechanically picked green and shipped perhaps thousands of miles to be ripened at its destination by being bathed in ethylene gas. When I turned in my thesis proposal, my professor commented that she was concerned I would not have enough material to meet the length requirement of five pages. When the dust settled I had over eight pages of text (two of "works cited") and I had not covered anything about the process of seed saving, or storing seeds and had only mentioned growing tomatoes in containers. "Black tomatoes?" Yup, showed her a pic from one of the tomato books that writing the paper was an excellent excuse to buy. (Not that I didn't have a few already.) Bets |
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| Sarge: Women can't understand Men & Men can't understand Women. That's just how life works...lol. Seriously though, I argued with mine for 2 days about using a few windowsills...sheesh! =) |
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| Sarge: Women can't understand Men & Men can't understand Women. That's just how life works...lol. Seriously though, I argued with mine for 2 days about using a few windowsills...sheesh! =) LOL, over in the Winter Sowing forum there are a few ladies who do their indoor planting in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. Presumably, they go to bed for awhile, then sneak into the kitchen and plant several WS containers and set them outside. Then they clean up all traces of their planting so hubby will never know, then quietly get back in bed. Oh my. So far I've not heard complaints from my DH as long as I make sure to wipe the extra dirt off the table and onto the floor :) But I don't dare ask his elderly mother, who seems to always have her apartment heated to 80F or higher, if I can do some tomato and pepper germinating over there. Bet seedlings would jump right up out of the soil in no time over there. |
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