[NickMode]

Ill get shots of my pepper and tomato plants soon. idea

[Mrs.Babba]

great nick!!..let see em, you have tomatoes already, Im jealous, we wont have any till the first part of aug.! cant wait!

[MrFista]

Fantastic! I love all gardening and hoped I might get to discuss veggies with a more laid back community.

Thank you to whomever got this started.

[Mrs.Greengenes]

I have tomato plant but it is kinda small and just making flowers. Since our garden is not built at this house yet I am just growing it on the porch right now in a pot. Still excited though. I could eat a tomato a day if I had them around to just pick and they are so stinkin expensive right now in the store. Geez. Can't wait to see all of your pics. I will take some as soon as I see fruit.

Sweet Indeed....nothing like a little homegrown Fruits and Veggies, especially now with all the virus scares which would only make sense as a warning sign of more problems to come so I say "plant that garden" and lets grow our own food and give back to mother Earth what we have taken for granted for so long. Garden work is good for the Soul...even better n Church!!!!LOL......then again....maybe it is Church to begin with.

I was raised on several acres of country prime and we had a garden from the time I moved to the country in the mid 60s until I left in the mid 70's which does account for a little dirt under the nails.
When my dear ole Pa retired from playing ball he decided to move us awaw from the city and the Riots of the 60's and he used his college background in Chemistry and opened up a huge Fertilizer store. We are talking about the Trains coming in and unloading the ammonia nitrate and storing them in the bins and the trucks loading up and then spreading the nutes over the land...mostly for the farmers who grew their own hay for their cattle and also cut, raked and bailed it...the hay....not the cattle:wink:. I remember riding shotgun at 5-6 years old in those bump bucket spreader trucks and going across the pastures and pulling under the closest shade tree and my grand pappy would pull out the mason water jug, take a big ole swig and hand it to me.....he would reach back into the truck and turn on the radio to a little Hank Williams on the AM radio while he reached in his back pocket and took out a chew of Red Man Chewing Tobacco and he would look at me and wink and every single time and he would say "Don't ya tell ya Grandma now."..and I never did. He would get that chaw of tobacco working pretty good and then take another swig out of the water jar, BTW...there was not plastic water bottles in those days or aluminum cans even...anyway I saw that chaw of tobacco spit go from the side of his mouth and back into the mason jar and then he pulled the jar back down from his mouth and handed it back over to me for one last swig before hoping back in the bump bucket and I would tell Pa Pa every time......"I Think I'll pass on that one Pa Pa." true story..honest...I couldn't make that one up if I wanted to....

The funny thing is that I also never told Grandpa when Grand Ma would take her little dip of snuff hits as well because her home made chocolate cakes were much better than that silly ole drink of bacco water..:wink: I guess they taught me to be pretty good at keeping secrets.....well till now anyway.

I remember my grand mother working in the garden from sun up til sun down and as we were pulling away in the afternoon she would be hunched over because of working in the garden. She would raise her hand and bring up her index finger that was curved in like a C and she would bid us a little crooked finger good evening as we pulled out of the drive way. I didn't realize until I became sick in 96 on why she waved like that and it hit me one day. She could not straighten up most likely because of osteoporosis in her spine or even open her hands & fingers because of the arthritis that had set in so she just waved the only way she knew how to. I started waving to people with the one curved finger many years ago just to honor her steadfastness in life and it sure is much easier to wave to people that way than it is to throw up the middle finger that is always a little more straight to the point.


The Mrs loves her m'aters and peppers as well. She loves to make the Salsa during the holidays.




Love & Compassion to all.
annaC

[Mrs.Babba]

Thats a great story buck, thanks for the stroll down memory lane with you

awesome tomatoes you got there, cant wait for ours!

[Mrs.Greengenes]

Great stories and pics from all of you. My grandparents lived in Michigan when I was young so I used to go spend the summer there riding around on the tractor with grandpa and running through the corn fields with my cousins. My parents took my to So. Ca where I grew up at young age so visiting them was always my fun farm time. Your post above brought up those good memories.

[Babbabud]

Thanks for taking the time to share a little piece of yourself and your grandparents with us Buck. Much appreciated my friend.
Nam myoho renge kyo

Originally Posted by NickMode

Ill get shots of my pepper and tomato plants soon. idea

i guess that did not happen? where are your pictures moon
still checking this tread? show us

this i just a little

[MicroRoy]

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