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06/23/11, 12:18 PM
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Life is soooo not far (Warning, a garden rant ;) )
This is SOOO not fair!!!
Mother nature has given me some lovely leavs of basil in the garden.
But my tomatoes are only this big 
This is jsut SO WRONG> I simply cannot wait any farther. I may have to *Gasp* buy a tomato. I have not bought a tomato in years.  
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06/23/11, 12:28 PM
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I have ONE tomato that size! So you are doing better than me!
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06/23/11, 12:32 PM
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My tomatoes are the size of large walnuts. But those are the "early girls". The rest are taking their time.
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06/23/11, 12:45 PM
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How did you get clean fingernails?
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06/23/11, 12:47 PM
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I don't have ANY tomatoes yet. 
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06/23/11, 12:48 PM
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Nikki arnt you up north? I dont think anyone has tomatoes any bigger then that up here. All I have is flowers on my tomato plants.
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06/23/11, 12:51 PM
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Just starting to get flowers here too.
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06/23/11, 12:54 PM
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I may have to *Gasp* buy a tomato. I have not bought a tomato in years
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lol I had to buy a tomato this year too, it felt so shameful. I have a garden full of green tomato 
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06/23/11, 01:00 PM
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How did you get clean fingernails?
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I washed the dishes this morning LOL!
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06/23/11, 01:19 PM
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Well, don't feel bad Nickie! Most of my stuff is still teeny...BUT I just ate my first beefsteak tomato sandwich day before yesterday, yum! It was so big that one slice overlapped the bread all the way around.
But down here we've been at 100 degrees nearly every day for three weeks now. I have four more turning now, and I'm watching them like a hawk, just waiting to pounce, lol!  I'll tell my tomatoes to send growing vibes your way! 
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06/23/11, 05:42 PM
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Nickie, are fruit trees doing anything in your neck of the woods? Our apple tree didn't even flower this year. Neighbors said their fruit trees are also duds this year.
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06/23/11, 05:45 PM
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I picked our first ripe tomato yesterday. This past weekend I bought some beautiful locally grown heirloom tomatoes at the farmer's market. We've already eaten all of them.
Why don't you get some at the farmer's market?
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06/23/11, 07:25 PM
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Nickie, are fruit trees doing anything in your neck of the woods? Our apple tree didn't even flower this year. Neighbors said their fruit trees are also duds this year.
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My fruit trees bloomed like nuts this year. This is the second year for the apple tree and it was COVERED, so were all the other fruit trees. Even the pears, which I BUTCHARD last winter as they were funky shapped and needed to be 're-trained' lol bloomed for the first time ever (I expected them to bloom in a couple more years as they are very young trees).
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06/23/11, 07:38 PM
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As you said, life is not fair. I want my apples!
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06/23/11, 08:25 PM
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I live in central Indiana and usually don't have ripe tomatoes til the first or second week of july. My grandaughter went out last evening to check the plants and came in with two ripe ones!! It is kind of a miracle since we have had nothing but wet weather.
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06/23/11, 11:58 PM
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Our neighbor gave us 2 red tomatoes last week. We haven't yet eaten them, but we do have a pack of Wright's bacon ready to fry up tomorrow night for our first BLTs of the year. The neighbor said he's had ripe tomatoes for 3 weeks now, but he grows them in a greenhouse on their family farm about a mile from here.
If it counts for anything, we have tomato plants in the ground, but no sign of a tomato anywhere on them.
Our apple trees did a massive blooming this year and we should have a lot of apples in late September.
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06/24/11, 12:05 AM
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Our small garden has done almost nothing this year.
1 tomato plant has produced 2 tomatoes and nothing else.
The other ones are basically doing the same thing.
Green beans nothing
Squash produced just 2.
I am ready to pull everything up, and wait till fall.
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06/24/11, 12:16 AM
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Planting the garden
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Our cherry tree is ok but our apple tree isn't going to do to hot this year I think. The Mulberries are way more scarce than last year too. I'm not even going to talk about the garden
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06/24/11, 12:19 AM
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This year DH and I each got our own tomato plants. His is beautiful and the tomatos are the size of peas. Mine looks terrible, half fallen over and I have about 8 tomatos that are just about to turn red!!! HA!! I win!!
I also got a volunteer something. Wadsnt sure what it was, it flowered and now I know it is a cucumber plant covered with little cucumbers!!! Yum cucumbers and tomatos!!! I cant wait!!
Alice in Virginia
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06/24/11, 09:33 AM
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It's all a lost cause without fresh mozzarella and some olive oil anyway.
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