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**boonie stomper** · June 21, 2006, 06:51 AM

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Seed swap does sound like a great idea - or a plant swap, if anyone like me wants assurance against the critters. Too often the seeds I plant, feed and water for weeks get eaten by something before they can sprout, or soon after emerging from the ground.

Could that be what happened to your sunflowers MOG?

I've got lots of extra plants here - mint, ivy, virginia creeper, japanese maples, ginko trees, iris, columbine (red, pink & white), sunchoke, black-eyed susans, & blue azuratum (sp?)

**Heidi3** · June 21, 2006, 07:13 AM

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sunchokes YUMMMMY I have never tried to grow those!!!!

I dont have much in the way of veggies .. just some garlic...collards Kale ..the rest of what I have are tons of perennial herbs and fruits strawberries, gooseberries, creeping huckleberries ....blackberries ...and my baby fruit trees.. ...and LOTS OF RHUBARB!!!!

I want to do more nuts in the yard I have a hazelnut tree but would like a walnut if I could find a dwarf ..is there such a thing I wonder?

I wish I could grow tomatoes, cukes and peppers ect...

but I have wasted sooo much money trying I just bagged it

**boonie stomper** · June 21, 2006, 08:00 AM

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Heidi 3, with the price of tomatoes at 2.50/lb here, and the pulpy taste, I doubt I'll ever buy them from a store again! They are so easy to grow, I've got them coming up in the mulch pile where I tossed a few bad ones last year. And peppers are just as easy. All it should cost is the price of water. Use the seed from what's in your salad, add to some compost in the sun and keep moist. If I leave town in the summer, I fill a sturdy 2-liter bottle with water, cap it, poke hole in bottom with ice pick and sit it by the plant. So long as the bottle is thick enough to not collapse, daily temperature fluctuations cause a little water to come out each hot day.

I'm trying to grow 2 olive trees. Only 3 more years before they should fruit!

**MotherOfGizmo** · June 21, 2006, 08:15 AM

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Nope Boonie the critters didn't get them, I had them in seed starter pots in the house, they just never came up. You can always start your seeds indoors if you want plants, that's what we do with most seeds.

Heidi, if I had to eat a store bought tomato I'd gag! They're not even the same animal as a homegrown.

**Heidi3** · June 21, 2006, 08:19 AM

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I buy local grown tomatoes at the farmers market they are sun ripened and perfect ..I do not buy grocery store tomatos I agree they suck!!!

**boonie stomper** · June 21, 2006, 08:27 AM

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Farmers Market this past Sat. were actually selling green tomatoes for $2.50/lb! It tempted me an awful lot, cuz had run out of my frozen homegrown stash of tomatoes last week, and have been reluctant to pick any more of my new crop green. But they'll taste ever so much better, the more I have to drool in anticipation for the day they're ready to pick.

I'm hoping there will be volunteer tomatoes in the herb garden from the heirlooms I had there last year. I've let that bed grow wild this spring, and just been picking onions, leeks and mint around the edges. Somewhere beneath the wild grape vines in there - I've got a LOT of weeding to do when get back from vacation.

**bjs1976** · June 21, 2006, 08:27 AM

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BULBS-- omg is anyone up for anonymous bulbs. The house I bought was left to me witha a garden shed full of over 100 misc bulbs. I have no I dea what they are. I didint get them planted last fall. i might pnat some this year, not that I know what she has planted and where.

I would be glad to ship some along to anyone who would liek some. I am anxious to see what grows..

With 18 tomoatoe plants i my garden, I will be busy canning salsa and stewed tomoatoes this year, I reckon. If my cukes dont come soon tho- I am worried I wont be making many pickles :-( . Will see what happends.

**Heidi3** · June 22, 2006, 06:50 AM

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bulbs and seeds exchange how cool we must do this!!! I just do not have any yet they need to dry out a bit so I can send them....

I want to call in today the sun is shining and my garden needs SSSOOOOOO much work I weeded a pile as tall as I am ..or should I say as short as I am!!!! it took me almost four hours to weed one bed it was so bad....1/2 the lawn is cut ...the one good thing about living on this hill is EVERYTHING I do in the garden involveds climbing up and down the hill to haul/mow/rake whatever ...

so the past few days while busting my asss I have put everything I ate and did in the yard and house into fitday ..something I rarely do ..and realized I have burned twice what I have eaten

and I eat a lot ....that was validating for sure...I hate counting anything but it is kind of fun once in a while to just see where I am in life ...and all I can say when it comes to yardwork and working on this house you can....

take that Pillates

**Heidi3** · June 22, 2006, 06:52 AM

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ps I am painfully jealous of all who can grow a nice crop of tomatoes

I wish I could but for some reason I have no luck at all here!!!

**MotherOfGizmo** · June 22, 2006, 07:24 AM

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That sucks Heidi. My most favorite part of summer anymore is the fresh tomatos.

I'd be happy to take some bulbs off your hands bsj, I love a good mystery!

**MotherOfGizmo** · June 22, 2006, 07:27 AM

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Oh Boonie, I'm having to restrain myself from picking the green ones right now. I love fried green tomatos and that breading recipe that Barb posted would be perfect for those.

**boonie stomper** · June 22, 2006, 08:19 AM

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This will probably be my last post here until July 5, unless my cousin bring his PC to the beach. My garden will be on it's own too, so hopefully it will rain some. I take porch plants to the shade and some I sit in my artificial stream where they're in 2-3" deep water. The tomato plants each get their own water jug with a pinhole to leak on them every day. I hope they will have red maters when I get back! *drooling*

**2big4mysize** · June 22, 2006, 08:34 AM

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my tomoto issues are with all the volunteers that come up cause we compost the vines in the bed since tomotes love to grow on old tomatoe vines. I got 9 vols big enough to be keepers so far and not a clue as to which varitety they are well I do know they are not the tangerine or the red cheery cause the maters are too big.

It has been in the 90s over 2 weeks now and this new black seed Simpson lettuce is still growing strong. looks like a dang topiary bed with all the outer leaf picking I have done. Mother is so cute cause she has fallen in love with the bright deep red bulls blood leaves and doesn't want me to harvest any cause they look so nice.

**Heidi3** · June 22, 2006, 08:36 AM

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Boonie we will miss you!!!! that is for sure!!!!

**MotherOfGizmo** · June 22, 2006, 09:05 AM

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Oh Boonie, have fun for me! I don't get my annual beach trip this year and I'm bumming big time about it!

2big, those leaves are beautiful! I've never heard of that plant before!

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