Comments on: I Love Tomatoes

By: Don

Don — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:52:10 +0000

Kathy, you’re not the only one blogging about gardening. Loretta Nall has a couple of posts.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:57:14 +0000

Yeah, the Farmers’ Market is my fallback too.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:26:56 +0000

I sure hope you have a lovely crop of ‘maters, Kathy. I have become quite dependent upon the Farmers Market since I suck so bad at growing ANYTHING buy freaking yellow squash and cucumbers. I love both - but too much of a good thing…..
I have to laugh that Jon’s box of plants is STILL on the kitchen table - we’ve had baseball games every night this week. I probably should count on being a Farmers Market customer again this year!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:30:24 +0000

Yikes — tough to grow. That doesn’t bode well for me. Ah, well, if mine don’t turn out, at least I know where I can get some.

Dear Husband is glad to see the endorsements. He’s picky about his tomatoes and a little suspicious of my experiments.

By: K. Whitmire

K. Whitmire — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:02:38 +0000

Dianne is right. Cherokee Purples have a wonderful taste, although like a lot of heirlooms, they’re tough to grow. I consider them the best tomato. They look pretty until you cut them. The insides look like liver. I have a couple dozen on my window sill that I’m growing from seed, the should be ready for the garden in about a week.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:01:20 +0000

Don, you are truly a dedicated gardener!

Jennifer, I’ll be happy to send extra tomatoes your way. (And if my crop fails — it wouldn’t be the first time — the JeffCo Farmers’ Market has wonderful Chandler Mountain tomatoes.)

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:24:30 +0000

I will be happy to accept any excess tomatoes as I don’t grow things myself.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:26:53 +0000

Kathy, I use only 1 crutch most of the time because I need at least one hand free. When doing gardening or yard work I sometimes use the tool I need as a crutch.

The only pepper name I could locate is “Chinese Five Color Hot Pepper” and it was sold by Reimer Seeds @ http://www.reimerseeds.com. The name of the other pepper may be there too as something like Chinese (or Oriental) Purple Pepper, or something similar.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:04:52 +0000

Don, crutches? Yes, please do send me the pepper names if you can lay your hands on the catalog. I’m wondering where mine is right now.

misswildthing, I’ll see what I can do about getting some Vidalia onion seeds for you. The clay in our yard is a piker next to the Georgia red clay I grew up with, but any excuse for sunflowers.

*goes off to ponder a sunflower bed in the back yard*

By: Don

Don — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:59:13 +0000

Kathy, I just know you’ve been waiting with baited breath for me to answer and say that I’ve never planted habanera peppers, so now you can spit the worms out of your mouth (yes, I know how to spell “bated”).
Jalapeno peppers are hot enough for me because I like to be able to savor the flavor and not scald my mouth.

I’ve been outside doing a bit of gardening work and it takes me forever to get anything done while using a crutch.

A couple of years ago in late Fall a nice lady in Gaston NC sent me seeds for 2 varieties of oriental ornamental and edible hot peppers. I planted some in pots, they sprouted, and when cold weather came I brought them indoors until Spring when I reset them in the garden. They’re quite attractive either place. They change colors as they mature so that you have several colors of fruit on the bush at the same time — such as yellow, orange red, and purple. Sprigs of them make nice decorative additions to tables and other places. If you’re interested I’ll see if I can find out their names and the seed company they came from.

misswildthing, most of the worms I’m familiar with aren’t very large so they require very little space to “do their business”.