[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

> [at-l]OT Garden Fever, was More Tomatoes




> We were through Lumberton, NC Tuesday and got tomatoes at the state farmers 
> market for $1.00/pound!
> Just thought I'd pass it on: ;-)

Maybe it's that 70-degree weather Sly was talking about, but I have 
garden fever like crazy. Anyone else?

Due to the building process and an ancient, inland sea, my 
spanking-brand-new little garden patch/prospect is sheer, sterile, 
unorganic-mattered SAND. Good, draingae, yeah. But ZERO fetility. But 
hey, I gardened my life in clay, so I'm not complaining.

I'm organic at heart, and eyesterday a neighbor said I could have some 
horse manure, which is fertile but you have to be sure they haven't 
dewormed the beats lately (or, the dewormers nails the earthworms too.

Anyway, imagine my sense of abundance when she took me back, not to a 
raw manure pile, but a foot-deep, churned-up area of crumbly, black 
compost! The stuff is 4/5 on it's way to being a juicy beefsteak or 
German Johnson 'mater!!!! Man! I can almost taste the sun-warmed 
tomato sandwiches, or is it a sliced tomato/ fresh basil/mozarella 
slald, drizzled with virgin olive oil and a crack or two of pepper. Oh 
baby!

So, while my BACXK is going to pay dearly for this digging enterprise, 
in the long run, I figure my health, happiness and well-being will win 
out.


-- 
========================================
     	AT Journal:
	http://www.trailjournals.com/Liteshoe/
	Jan Leitschuh Sporthorses Ltd.
	http://www.mindspring.com/~janl2/index.html

========================================