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hahaha! imagine going out and rolling around in the snow and making snowforts and snowmen just for fun!? now i think that's just nuts. at least as an adult and when i was up north i would go walking in the blizzards because i found it rather exhilarating and uplifting (dressed appropriately...

40F at the airport (which is quite a ways from here) as of a half hour ago. i don't see any frost outside so that's a good thing and if it only got to about 38F i think the tomatoes will be ok... sunny and 71F in the forecast for today. tonight 45F, tomorrow 82F, ... all warm enough for the...

yes 100 times. :) they do cook faster since they are still wet... if you have a bean that falls out of the shell rather easy that helps a great deal too. always a challenge without some genetic analysis.

it would certainly help if i weren't such an utter mooshball all winter (other than some light exercises and shovelling snow i just don't have much enthusiasm for indoor exercise). i really need to up my winter exercise schedule...

a few ties to the stem should secure them, but of course you don't want them too tight. yes, i wouldn't do that if i didn't absolutely have to, especially for just a few tomatoes and the short amount of time it would take (a few weeks or so).

Mom knits every morning. good laugh. :)

instead of covering the whole plant you can just bag with the mesh a few flowers/bunches until they form a fruit and then mark those tomatoes with a bit of yarn or something for later harvest and taking only those seeds.

we're still having to run the heat and it is June 1st! two more nights of cool enough weather and then the forecast goes up to 81F for Monday and 86F for Tuesday, 81F for Wednesday... [amused at me not noticing that today was not June 1st ... ]

Search function (upper right on my screen), put in Little Easy Bean Network, click on search titles only and then click search. :) plenty to read and lots of pretty pictures.

duct tape won't do it?

was able to hunt the groundhog today and so i hope that was the one using the burrow that i'd been trying to trap for a while, but no luck there until i saw it out in the back lawn eating some green stuff. plugged up the burrow entrance good and used a lot of wood stakes to make it very hard...

astalumbago...

the most surefire way to do tomatoes would be to use the fine mesh cover on the branch or bloom and then when the flower has developed enough to ding it well so it self-pollinates. i think @Zeedman does this for his peppers.

yes, that would be very frustrating.

i wasn't even planning on being able to get outside today with the forecast for rains and that it had rained last night and this morning, but the rain stopped and i needed to get some honeysuckle tree and grape vines cut up and dealt with. nice to have that pile taken care of. and of course...

mentioning little black berries, as a kid we had fields out back that often contained little black raspberries, they didn't grow very tall but they did get spread all over the place. there's some red raspberries growing along the edges of the ditches here and also in a few other spots, but i...

when Mom worked for the various trucking firms for 30yrs she was "introduced" to computers, by the time she retired she hated them with a passion which remains. she barely deals with the microwave oven, tv, stereo, dvd player and the cell phone without wanting to throw them through the patio...

thank you for the update, i was wondering how things were going. :) smart puppy. :)

i looked at those and thought that perhaps that was very thin plastic and not metal. nowadays you get many garden plants in very thin cells which almost collapse if you look at them wrong - which is good in terms of not wasting materials but is bad for not being able to reuse the containers...

that's outside of my expertise for sure. too big and too many risks if it fails at the wrong time. good luck! :)