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> [at-l]OT Garden Fever, was More Tomatoes
- Subject: > [at-l]OT Garden Fever, was More Tomatoes
- From: janl2 at mindspring.com (Jan Leitschuh)
- Date: Wed Jan 5 09:04:48 2005
> 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.
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