As Chick B mentioned in a previous post – thanks to FOC, Susan M, I have a new strategy involving pantyhose ready to implement when I see the next baby tomato on the vine. Currently, there are just a bunch of yellow flowers. However, in the meantime, I have harvested a load of peppers [...]
July 16, 2010
Thanks to Friend of the Chicks (FOC) Susan M, Chick A can now come out of her funk and devastation to live another gardening day. Apparently dressing a green tomato with a section of panty hose allows the tomato to continue to grow while keeping away the squirrels and other pesky critters. Southern Catholic Chicks, [...]
July 9, 2010
During our annual Fourth of July celebration with Chick B and her family, she commented on my two beautiful tomatoes! Neither was ready for picking but one was turning red. I went out the next day for the daily watering to discover that the beautiful tomato had been stolen. There was not even a remnant left. [...]
July 1, 2010
July 1, 2010. The race is on. I seem to be having a little more success with the tomatoes (the only thing I was willing to try) while Chick A is having great success with her jalapeno peppers (show off). After waking up in a cold sweat over the possibility that a squirrel might find my [...]
June 16, 2010
Looks like the green thumb garden duel could be a neck and neck race so far…..our tomatoes look about the same size, although I think a have more in number than Chick A (only because I started first). More later on the mint and jalapenos….. Here’s hoping that the squirrels don’t find my summer project! Chick B
May 21, 2010
There is something very Southern about playing in the dirt. Perhaps it is from our agricultural heritage down here in the South. I come from a long line of green thumb ladies. My mother, aunts, grandmother and mother-in-law were “horticulturally gifted.” They knew all the names and varieties of plants, were active participants in their [...]
May 18, 2010
It’s a little embarrassing, really. I have a mother who was once a dedicated tomato grower, and my mother-in-law still harvests both tomatoes and peonies, for heaven’s sake. And here I am, nearing the end of a fifth decade of life, and I’ve never even attempted a home-grown tomato. This from someone who eats tomato [...]
July 21, 2010
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