On Aug 27, 1:31 am, Omelet > wrote:
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> Sheldon > wrote:
> > Omelet wrote:
> > > Sheldon wrote:
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> > > > Right now I have a glut of tomatoes, can't eat them fast enough...
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> > > Gods.
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> > > I'd pay the postage if I thought they'd arrive fresh. :-(
> > > I did not grow this year.
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> > > > 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).
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> > > <sigh>
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> > > Will you marry me?
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> > Hmm, I guess this means not only do I have to plow your patch I have
> > to sow the seeds too. hehe
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> ;-)
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> > 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
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> > Sheldon
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> 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.
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> It's less expensive to hit the local farmers market.
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> I plan to experiment with container gardening, just have not gotten
> around to it yet.
> --
> Peace, Om
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Hi Omlet,
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I have never used it but a colleage has been using something similar
for several years with great success.

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada