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Sunday, July 9th, 2006
Things have been tough for tomato lovers at our house and probably in many other homes in the Roanoke Valley. The crop has been slow coming in this year. Our plants were attacked by marauding deer and a fungus. Good...
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Sunday, July 9th, 2006
Things have been tough for tomato lovers at our house and probably in many other homes in the Roanoke Valley. The crop has been slow coming in this year. Our plants were attacked by marauding deer and a fungus. Good...
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
It's my own fault, I got lazy and didn't put one of my stinky socks at the upper end of my tomato patch. While we were being deluged with rain last week, a deer raiding party hit. They got the...
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
It's my own fault, I got lazy and didn't put one of my stinky socks at the upper end of my tomato patch. While we were being deluged with rain last week, a deer raiding party hit. They got the...
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
It's my own fault, I got lazy and didn't put one of my stinky socks at the upper end of my tomato patch. While we were being deluged with rain last week, a deer raiding party hit. They got the...
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
My mother would have my head if she were still alive. The idea of paying $2.99 per pound for tomatoes at Kroger would seem absurd to her. Yet I was willing to spend something over $8.00 for four tomatoes earlier...
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
My mother would have my head if she were still alive. The idea of paying $2.99 per pound for tomatoes at Kroger would seem absurd to her. Yet I was willing to spend something over $8.00 for four tomatoes earlier...
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Saturday, June 10th, 2006
Finally we have a few green tomatoes to go with all the blooms. I plan to keep up my watering so hopefully these tomatoes will be ready in early July. The combination of cool weather and dry conditions haven't helped...
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Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
I chatted with one of the produce vendors at the Roanoke Farmers Market today. I wanted to get his opinion of the tomato season. I was relieved to hear that he also feels that we're running about a week behind....
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Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
I chatted with one of the produce vendors at the Roanoke Farmers Market today. I wanted to get his opinion of the tomato season. I was relieved to hear that he also feels that we're running about a week behind....
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Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
The great tomato challenge continues. The fourth of July as a delivery date for the first ripe tomato is looking like a stretch but there is still a month left so I won't concede yet. I checked out my posts...
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
The sun continues its relentless march to the Peaks of Otter view from my sun dial deck. We're still having cool nights and nice days without any heat to speak of yet. This being Virginia, the heat and humidity will...
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
The deed is done, the race to that first home grown tomato sandwich has begun. Last year I got the plants in the ground on April 25. I detailed my planting tactics in The Spring Tomato Ritual, The Sock Tomatoes,...
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Sunday, March 26th, 2006
There comes a time when we have to acknowledge the inevitable whether it is the start of the mowing season, the state of the war in Iraq, or the mess that we have in health care. I can't do much...
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