i have slugs

Lainy, can't you tell?!? SLUGS!

Gramps, you can always use that "hair in a can" spray doohicky ^_^ (I mean, should your head gets any bigger...) (...you'd get stuck in your house unable to get out of the doors or weenders ^_^!)

JudyinGA sent me a link to Farmerdill. Wow! He is a serious gardener! I can see why Jim calls him sharp. He has a great garden!

oh not enough coffee! Is farmerdill the NC cottage garden guy? I'm getting confused!
I'm full of fudge too.....I'd sleep it off but there are a LOT of electronics going right now..I think I'm on the verge of a fudge coma...
lainymay it's nice to see you!
chezka, check ebay for your movie...a friend got me an 80's movie that I LOVE that's just a bad movie Night of the Comet. I'll find out where she got it. (normal people I'm sure think it's bad, I love it).
Jim maybe Jo can stick a pin in your head to bring it back to normal size? Just trying to be helpful, what with your back an' all, it must be mighty heavy *grin*

Chesza, my little sweetie, you always have my best interest at heart. I've never used the hair in a can but I did borrow a friends toupee for Hawoleen one year. My chief deacon didn't even recognize me. I also spray painted my head green one time but the cutworms kept bothering me. I guess I'll stick with the natural skin look. At least it is nice and shiny. I use armor all on it.

Send us that link on Farmerdill, Venice. I would like to look at it. All I've ever done is read his posts. He not only know about gardening he know a lot of the technical stuff as well.

Lainymay, sorry to hear you were ill. Glad you feel up to playing with the gang. I need some help, they are all after me.

I had to many needles shoved in the other end last week, think I'll pass on the one in the head. Jo has a way of poppin my bubble if she has to. Doesn't even use a needle.

I don't know how to copy a hyperlink that works. Does anyone?

[HYPERLINK@auth.gardenweb.com]

For Farmerdill's garden, insert this into your web browser. Forget about the hyperlink. It takes me a while to figure out how to do things.

https://auth.gardenweb.com/members/token28001

Hi all. Cat must be working hard this week. Lainymay, from the United Kingdom....welcome back;-) I would enjoy hearing about the way of life in your part of the world;-)

Venice, The sunflower's do attract bird's when the head is full of seed but right now the bee's are doing their thing. Love Cherry tomatoe's in salad's.

Lovely flower pic moon and glad you got the kid's off to school.

Lynnie, Maybe you should step away from the fudge for a little while;-) My head spin's after eating too much peanut butter fudge......but I do like it.



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Dawgone Rachael, you mentioned peanut butter and now I got a craving flung on me. Lordy, I'm gettin the shakes thinking about it.

By the way, I really like grape tomatoes but my cherry tomatoes just aren't as sweet. Is there a real sweet cherry tomato? Or can someone recommend a grape tomato?

A couple years ago when I had sunflowers, goldfinches liked them and they would be upside down eating on the ones that drooped. So fun to watch.

Jim, I am a peanut- butter freak! Love cooking with it during the Holiday's. From time to time, there is nothing like a good ole Granny Smith apple, etc "apple" with peanut butter smeared on top of the slice's.

Venice, I can not answer your question concerning the tomatoe's that you mentioned. My favorite is the yellow one's;-) The Goldfinch bird's love our Thistle! Just wish they would gobble them up faster!

Venice, the best cherry tomatoe, I know of is Sweet 100's. They have a really good taste and are very prolific. I'm not a cherry tomatoe fan but my wife loves them. I'm partial to Roma tomatoes but can't raise them because of the blight we have down here.

Don't like apples Rachel, but am a peanut butter addict. Go into withdrawal if I don't get some every day. I'll eat it on anything. My favorite taste treat is a mustard, mayonaise, peanut butter, bologna sandwich with onions and jalapeno peppers. Now that is a sandwich. As dad used to say that is one to give the tumblebugs the heartburn.

Great to know. Ok, what is a good regular tomato?

Jim, that sandwich you just described sound's right up my ally;-) Your wife make's a home-made Salsa? I have tasted some real good home-made Salsa in my day's but I am alway's up to some-one else's. Hint, Hint........hint;-)

Well there are a lot of good ones out there. Celebrity is one I use to raise before the blight got so bad here. Of the blight resistent varieties I raise, I like Amelia the best. I'm going to try Black Russian this year, it is an heirloom tomatoe, and I doubt it will make it but going to try. Also bought seed to Cherokee Chocolate. It is a great tasting tomatoe. I'm just hoping I can miss the blight with them. I don't like the big beef steak type tomatoes. Do you start your own seed? If you do d-mail me your address and I'll mail you about four seed each of the Russian and Cherokee. All I want is a couple of each. Just have to put them in the freezer until time to start them.

For my tomatoes, I just bought that $1.39 6-pack of tiny plants just labeled cherry. And I wouldn't say they are so wonderful tasting. But like Rachel said, good in a salad.

You said that all you wanted was a couple of each.

I just save flower seeds but they are pretty ordinary compared to the flowers all of you grow. I keep my seeds in tight cookie tins in the fridge. I just have an up-right fridge and small freezer. I think a few seeds would get lost with all the things in there.

Why do you keep yours in the freezer?

Kindred spirits to the bone Rachael. The receipe is in your personal email.

Keeps the seeds fresh. You can keep them in there for years and the germination will stay good. Just take out what I want to plant and put the rest back. I don't really like to start seed myself, but I have a friend who has several greenhouses that starts seed for the public and I'll just carry the seed to him to start. The plants I get from him are far superior to the ones I can buy at Wal Mart or Lowes. This year he isn't raising plants for the general so I am going to furnish seeds of the things I want and just pay him to start them. Putting your seed in the tins in the frig is doing the same thing.

I am sure your friend has plants better than what you could ever buy!

Have you looked at how Farmerdill starts seeds and roots plants? Wow, you really have to have space, light, and a bit of patience to do that! I tried one time to root rose branches just like it says on the Internet. That was a disaster! The rooting stuff is so fine that if you breathe on it, it can blow away! Plus I really didn't know how to cover them. After a week or so, I threw them out. I just put my seeds in the ground and just give the rest to Mother Nature.

You really don't eat that monster sandwich, do you?! lol

Thank you Jim!

I bought the sweetest, most flavored Cantaloupe a week or so ago at a Supermarket that I seldom shop at! Saved the seed's;-) It was not a very large bugger at all but my Lordy......it beat any that I have tried from the other Grocery store's that we shop at. Question is, how do I store the seed's? In a cool/dry space?

Thank's much

Venice, rooting roses is the easiest thing in the world. If you want to try again, let me know and I'll tell you how. Yes I really do like that monster sandwich only thing, with all the clogged arteries I've had I have to dodge bologna now.

Rachael, just lay the seed out on a flat surface and let them air dry. Then put them in something and freeze them. You need to find out what kind of cantalope it was, if it was a hybrid it come come back true it will revert to something it was bred from. Best bet would be to order some Ambrosia Cantalope seed from Burpee. They are the best I have ever eaten.

Rachel, I will have to tell you what happened when I planted seeds from a canteloupe I got at the grocery. Oh I got melons. But some looked more like cucumbers and some looked more like a short-neck squash. Same color as a melon but they sure looked nothing like melons! This is the first one that grew.

I don't have any roses left. One didn't make it through the winter and the other 2 were badly damaged from the hail and Japanese beetles. Then they just finally gave up.

Also, those "melons" were so hard that I had to use a LOT of muscle to cut them. I cooked them in the oven like squash. They were so mild that they really weren't worth eating. My neighbors would go by and ask me what I was growing. It was so funny when I told them they were canteloupe!

Buy you a couple of the new Knockout Roses. They have all colors now and even doubles. They are pest free and real forgiving about care.

Rachel, my mom used to make a peanut butter chocolate oatmeal no bake drop cookie that was delicious. We were raised on either peanut butter or bologna sandwiches in the summertime for lunch, Jim.

Hey Venice, Jim's got it on sweet 100 cherry tomatoes. They are just about the size of a bing cherry and nearly as sweet. We split them in half and dry them in the dehydrator. Put them in a zipper bag in the freezer....we eat them like tomato candy. For full size tomatoes, I really like Early Girl, one of the first to ripen, medium size, meaty with a rich old fashioned tomato flavor.

Rachel, lay the seeds out on a paper towel to dry. They will stick to the paper towel, so leave space between them. When they are dry, gentley fold the towel and store them in an air-tight container. When you are ready to plant, use the paper towel like seed tape. Cut off a seed and plant it and the piece of paper. The paper holds alittle extra moisture near the seed while it germinates.

Jim I want to try Black Krim and Cherokee Purple again this fall. I was late last year and didn't get a very good yeild before it got cold. I think I am gonna try a different couple heirlooms in the spring.

Venice apparently I'm not getting where you went. I got a guy in a cottage in S. Carolina. Farmerdill lives in Augusta, Ga.

Me too Jim. I thought maybe I was suffering from Thread-lag and got lost.

Good Night all. Sweet dreams

appleas & peanut butter...love 'em Rachel!
Moon, I make those same cookies...love those too!
So Farmerdill is NOT the NC cottage guy? Boy was I confused yesterday. Gotta pace myself with that fudge. I never have it & I got all excited. It was pretty funny cuz I went to his webpage & thought "he doesn't grow as many vegetables as I thought."
That is good info on cantaloupes, and tomatoes, Jim. When I do try veggie gardening I'll keep it in my mind. venice I admire your determination in trying to eat that melon lol
Venice if I can grow knockouts anybody can!
morning jj & chezka, & lainymay!

Lynnie, sounds like you are having a "hit the floor running" vacation...grin. Have fun today.

Good morning everyone.

Sorry all of you. I guess I can't read!

I guess maybe you have been here: http://davesgarden.com/members/Farmerdill/

I can't find his member page and I can't use Daves search because I am not a member. Has anyone tried putting in - "farmerdill member page" - in the search window?

Mornin ya'll ^_^!

Morning Chezca. Haven't seen anyone but Lynnie and Venice this morning. Wonder where your favorite on-line Grandpa is today.

They're probly out in their gardens battling slugs... ^_^

Funny you should mention slugs, I was rereading the opening post" ...done everything natural to get rid of slugs". Does that mean she was calling in the supernatural to rid her of slugs? Had a bunch of interesting to me, thoughts.....Ghosts could freeze them, demons would fry them, zombies would.....do what zombies do with slugs, haints could chase them into the sun and melt them.....OR it could all go terribly wrong and we haven't heard from our Thread Founder because the irradiated slugs have eaten through the phone line and are popping up out of the grass like in TREMORS....

Thank's Jim and Moon for adding the information about the seed's on that yummy cantaloupe but after reading Venice's ordeal.......I guess I will stick with purchasing from Burpee's instead;-) Thank's much Venice for letting me know.

Moon where is that last picture of your's taken from? Your area of the world? Beautiful structure's and their purpose is?

Sure thing Rachel. Oh I do wish I lived near the building in the picture. That is the Sidney Opera House on Sidney Bay, Australia. It is supposed to have outstanding acoustics and be a feat of architectural design. It is truly beautiful and impressive in person. Another view.

Okay, wrong picture, sorry

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That design is breath-taking! Do you want to move to Aussie land? There is a lovely medical building that we view when crossing over from Tennessee to Arkansas.....it's a glass windowed structure as well. I will have to see if I can find a pic of it but I have to say it does not hold the mouth drop affect that the Sydney opera building hold's;-) I sure enjoyed it!