Lookin for my Slug Thread friends..!

You can always just holler, Sally. Much as I would like to see you, I can't let you go without good gumbo....GRIN

Now THAT'S a friend !

Staying in touch is almost as good as getting to visit...ALMOST....grin

Yeah , it was so hot that day and my dogs had to stay cool in the car , we didn't have much chance to really get a good visit in .

can't leave you guys alone for a minute! ^_^

Now that momma's day is over, who's ready for campin'?!?

No need to go camping here . I live in the woods.

Crappie was the only fish we had. A former chuch member always keeps me in fish. I have another that keeps me in venison. The veggies I'll raise my self. Got my first ripe tomato today.

WHOO HOO! The first Mater is always cause for celebration....GRIN

Yum I can almost taste it.....I still have months to wait. :(

Does it count if they are only the size of an english pea ?

it does in my book.

Then I have ONE. Lots of blooms tho , if they all make on that plant , I'll be freezing them and breaking out with hives from all those I eat . Yum !

I can just about live off tomatoes. I love everything that comes out of the garden but my favorite is the tomato.

I agree Jim, I like to eat them just like an apple. Corn on the cob runs a very close second though. Your making me hungry.....

Me too! me too.. and me too.. And a sandwich isn't a sandwich unless it has a tomato on it. Unless it's PBJ. ^_^

We love the Sweet 100's...small cherry tomatoes. They are like tomato candy....not all of them make it into the house...grin

are we talking about FOOD again?!? I'm gaining weight just reading..!^_^

My wife loves the sweet 100's. I usually plant a couple for her. Personally, I don't care for them. I plant primarily Amelias. They produce really good and are resistant to the blight we have in Louisana. I have a couple each or Top Gun, Tasty Lee and Golith. Just giving them a try for a friend who raises tomatos to suplliment his SS. He started all my plants for me. He is 83 and raises 300 tomato each year. He also has cucumbers and squash he sells. He also plants a 100 lbs. so seed potatos each year. I don't know how he does all the work.

Good health and a strong work ethic Jim. My FIL is 87 and still cuts the grass and tends a small garden plot. He says he just wasn't made to sit....grin

My dad use to make me so mad because he always had to be doing something. Needless to say I had to be doing it with him. Wouldn't you know I'd get just like him in my old age.

Ya have to get old first Jim. :) I've seen a lot of older folks put some of these yonguns to shame..when it comes to manual labor. Heck you guys make me tired. LOL

This may sound a bit off, but what if that is the mind and body making up for "wasted" time when younger? Taking advantage of all the time left to us.

I think you made a good point Moon. So many things I didn't have time for when I was younger, now are my favorite pass times.

Older and wiser....we learn how important it is to actually smell the roses.

My only problem is I've developed so many allergies with old age that I'll start sneezing if I smell to deep.

LOL Morning Jim...whats for breakfast?

LOL Jim....guess in your case you have to quickly sniff the roses.

Been eating tomato sandwichs for breaksfast lately, jjs.

Maybe a quick sniff will be ok. Ham frying doesn't make me sneeze.

Fried corn tortillias , with tomatoes, cheese on top , oven toasted till the cheese melts ! Can eat a half dozen . Bacon , tomato sandwiches , grilled in butter , Yum
Tomato pie , to die for . Mine haven't started turning yet and I'm STARVING for fresh tomatoes !!!!!

Can ya see the drool on the screen Jim ? I am sooo jealous, I have a flower on my mater plant and planted them in a new location this year using coffee cans with holes in it buried next to them to water them with. So far they are looking great and no sign of that fungus or whatever it is I was getting every year. Keeping my fingers crossed.

The Lowes here had plants on sale that had big ripe maters on them, ya know I wanted to pluck one as I walked by. LOL

Me too Digger and I don't even have a green one yet. :(

I set my tomatoes in the garden the first couple of days in Feb. That's why they are so early. Never did that before. Just this crazy winter we had. I've picked about 400 tomatoes off 14 plants. Just about to harvest the last of them. I have 6 that are just beginning to ripen and 2 that will be in in a couple of weeks. I'll be able to eat tomatoes for a while. If you guys were closer I'd be glad to share. I've given most of them away.

Got mine in 5 th of April

Wow that's a lot of maters Jim.
Mine was around Mothers day. Probably could have done it earlier with the crazy weather but I just didn't trust Mother Nature.

I'm with you one the trust Mother Nature but an old gentleman in my church said he was raising my plants for me. When he said they were ready I had to do something with them so just planted and hoped. It worked out this year but most years they would all have gotten frost bit.

Jim , don't know how many you plant , but five gallon buckets over them works fine against frost .
My problem is , I can't get them in the ground before 4th-5th of April unless I put them in Big pots and transport them 1,200 miles back home .We still have another frost around 20th of April . Thank goodness for buckets .

The last year we went big with tomatoes, I got ahead of myself and set them in the ground a bit too early. Of course we had a "freak frost" predicted and I was in a panic...30 plants to try to protect....I went to Salvation Army, bought some bed sheets and came home and used extra tomato stakes to make row covers....they worked really well and the sheets cost less than $10. I now have a collection of sheets and old plastic shower curtains that I use to cover the more delicate plants in winter.

Look for frost cloth , Moon . I bought some in Tex.a nd made a hoop house . Grew toms all last winter . Used pvcpipe over steel rods driven in the ground for frame . Hugs , gal friend .

Hugs right back Digger...grin. At the time money and availability were the primary factors....No one here sold frost cloth in smaller amounts, and I surely didn't need the rolls of hundreds of feet. We spend such a small amount of the winter with freeze/frost and rarely have a very large area to cover any more. It is considerably warmer in the winter here than Dahlonega....grin

I'm talking about frost cloth in Texas . We still get down to 26 some winters for a night or two .I bought it by the running foot . still a bit pricey. Someday I'm going to see all your "stuff ". More hugs ,