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Sheldon > wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
> > *Sheldon wrote:
> >
> > > Right now I have a glut of tomatoes, can't eat them fast enough...
> >
> > Gods.
> >
> > I'd pay the postage if I thought they'd arrive fresh. :-(
> > I did not grow this year.
> >
> > > breakfast this morning was a two quart bowl filled with diced fresh
> > > tomatoes, fresh picked parsley, a half a minced onion, juice of one
> > > lime, and lots of fresh ground black pepper... no added salt, no fat,
> > > no chemicals... I was too lazy to go to the garden for a cucumber.
> > > Probably for dinner, with a can of sardines in tomato sauce (man > > >
> > > can't live by fiber alone, gots to have some quality protein).
> >
> > <sigh>
> >
> > Will you marry me?
>
> Hmm, I guess this means not only do I have to plow your patch I have
> to sow the seeds too. hehe

;-)

>
> Why didn't you plant tomatoes, you have better tomato growing climate
> than me. And this year my pepper crop is explosive, lots, and huge...
> bell peppers are fantastically blocky, thick walled and heavy, and
> jalapenos will be way more than I could use in ten years. Must be all
> this hot weather that finally decended. But even in this heat still I
> spent a good part of today string trimming. It's so hot that I have
> to carry a terry towel to mop up the sweat (usual paper towels don't
> do it), and I'm already on my 2nd gallon of ice water with limes.
> Maybe I can get you to extract my juice... hehe
>
> Sheldon

Cost of water.
Last couple of summers I gardened, the cost of water was about $150.00
per month to support just a small garden, plus the asparagus patch.

It's less expensive to hit the local farmers market.

I plan to experiment with container gardening, just have not gotten
around to it yet.
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