Jean B. wrote:
> Tracy wrote:
>> Jean B. wrote:
>>> Tracy wrote:
>>>> Bob Muncie wrote:
>>>>> Tracy wrote:
>>>>>> Becca wrote:
>>>>>>> Tara wrote:
>>>>>>>> watermelon
>>>>>>>> perfect ripe tomatoes with salt
>>>>>>>> tomatoes, cucumbers, and onions in Italian dressing
>>>>>>>> homemade ice-cream
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Tara
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The ones you mentioned, plus strawberries, cantaloupe, yellow
>>>>>>> squash.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Becca
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and corn on the cob....
>>>>>
>>>>> Right on target Tracy... I have 6 perfect corn specimens on my
>>>>> kitchen counter, just waiting for the butter love. And love them
>>>>> dearly I will :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. I have a strawberry farm 2 miles from my house that opened for
>>>>> picking today. If I only had a sweetie of my own right now, I'd be
>>>>> in heaven.
>>>>
>>>> There are few places near me for pick your own strawberries, but it
>>>> has been raining non stop for about a month - or at least it seems
>>>> so. They won't let you pick when the vines are wet.....I wonder what
>>>> it will do to the prices. The last time I called u-pick strawberries
>>>> were 5 dollars a quart.
>>>>
>>>> Tracy
>>>
>>> I gather the strawberry crop has really suffered. Corn too. Hasn't
>>> the weather been ghastly? But then I think of folks who don't have
>>> water....
>>>
>>
>> The weather has been downright awful. I haven't had any corn yet this
>> year. I am not a fan of the really sweet white corn. I prefer yellow
>> corn. I don't think it exists anymore. I haven't seen it in forever.
>>
>> -Tracy
>
> I think that's one of the things we'll have to start trying to grow
> ourselves. Or we need to look for farms that sell "heirloom" corn.
>

I love my new house, but the yard is kinda small and is dwarfed by two
giant maples as well as the neighbor's trees. I really wish I could grow
strawberries! As much as I love corn - I don't have that kind of space.
I do have a small patch which gets a good amount of sun. I have been
trying to monitor the sun to see where exactly I get the most - but
since it's been raining for a month straight.....grrrrr.....
Next year - after we figure out what to do with the yard - I will try a
small garden - tomatoes at the very least.

-Tracy