Do you remember driving down a road.. there would be signs stuck in the ground every quarter mile or so.. 'Fresh Corn' one said with a picture. Next. 'Tomatoes!!' with picture... 'Berries!' next said..
You know you had to stop for it.
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Do you remember driving down a road.. there would be signs stuck in the ground every quarter mile or so.. 'Fresh Corn' one said with a picture. Next. 'Tomatoes!!' with picture... 'Berries!' next said..
You know you had to stop for it.
Drove the back roads, avoiding the parkway, each day to work. Always came home with some fresh produce. Can't beat Jersey produce.
Canning Weekend at the Ooblecks' 2nd week: Progress! Have six additional quart jars of green tomato pickles and I just took nine jars of salsa from the hot bath thingy...3 quart size, 3 medium, 3 small. So between last weekend and this weekend we've put up 72 jars/bottles of pickles & salsa. yippe ki aye! The salsa will be gone before the pickles...good stuff! The lids are popping as I type. oh yeah, here's a pic:
Could someone please identify the yellow flowers in these two pictures? I've been entering the first in the County Fair simply as "flowering bush" and the second as "Jerusalem Artichoke." I would like their proper names, thanks.
Could someone please identify the yellow flowers in these two pictures? I've been entering the first in the County Fair simply as "flowering bush" and the second as "Jerusalem Artichoke." I would like their proper names, thanks.
the first might be...kerria japonica...or jews mantle, aka i guess...both pretty yellow flowers.
Pretty!Could someone please identify the yellow flowers in these two pictures? I've been entering the first in the County Fair simply as "flowering bush" and the second as "Jerusalem Artichoke." I would like their proper names, thanks.
the first might be...kerria japonica...or jews mantle, aka i guess...both pretty yellow flowers.
Bingo! Kerria japonica or Japanese rose! Thanks, been wondering for years!
I saw on the news tonight that they are breeding and bringing back the 'Rutgers tomato'. (?) I guess Rutgers U have been saving seeds.
Reporter on the news taking a bite. (she almost fainted from joy, and it was not an act) I did for a moment for her. They interviewed road stands waiting for them and growing for next year.
It was lost for 80 years. Seeded it again.
Oh my. It looks wonderful.
Sorry, for rest of readers. I know it's just a tomato. But you have not had a Jersey Tomato.
Even when I did not live near here.. Parents would go get plants and soil.
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Rutger's had test fields on the outskirts of the town I lived in. Free tomatoes if you promised to save the seeds and return to the farm stand. Tomato perfection is a Jersey tomato.
No kiddin! Should have known that you would know this! That's just great.
They are finally coming back Spidey! AH, I have to send you some.
I ordered out a BLT today for lunch. meh. Till the tomato was in it!
I could have ditched everything else.
I'm closer to Rowan. But I sure do remember our coming over here to get the vegs.
Y'all are killing me! It feels like our season is over. I haven't had an awesome tomato in a couple of weeks. Watermelon is pretty much over. My fig connection says he didn't get any figs this year. Lepplady Did you get figs? I'm thinking he decided he'd eat them all by himself.
Gorgeous gardens everyone! Those elephant ears - I showed the Ogre - he'd love some like that. That clematis! Those berries! Those sunflowers! I'm no where near that good at gardening. Just learning. I'm going to look into joining the community garden next year. I need to learn some things before I try it on my own.
Gorgeous gardens everyone! Those elephant ears - I showed the Ogre - he'd love some like that. That clematis! Those berries! Those sunflowers! I'm no where near that good at gardening. Just learning. I'm going to look into joining the community garden next year. I need to learn some things before I try it on my own.
I want to try that tomato!!
As for ours... this damned cool weather is killing them. Well, not killing them literally but there are lots of green tomatoes that aren't ripening because it's not sunny. Cukes aren't doing their thing, either. I'm despairing of them ripening at all.
As for ours... this damned cool weather is killing them. Well, not killing them literally but there are lots of green tomatoes that aren't ripening because it's not sunny. Cukes aren't doing their thing, either. I'm despairing of them ripening at all.
My tomatoes have finally started coming on. I was beginning to worry.
I took this pic about 30 minutes ago. I saw this blue butterfly on the gardenia bush out back. The wings, up close, look like blue crushed velvet with an intricate stained-glass window pattern. I tried to zoom in but it flew away.
...it's brilliantly named "black butterfly with blue spots"....looks like a member of the swallowtail family but doesn't have the tell tale "tails"....
Beautiful shot. I've seen this butterfly before. You've described just what it looks like.
I used to have a butterfly bush. They are lovely and smell nice. And they really do attract them. All kinds of them. One day I will have another.
I have two butterfly bushes. I have yet to see a butterfly, but I do see hummingbirds!Beautiful shot. I've seen this butterfly before. You've described just what it looks like.
I used to have a butterfly bush. They are lovely and smell nice. And they really do attract them. All kinds of them. One day I will have another.
I had tiny hummingbird buzzing around a red shirt I was wearing one day. I put those feeders out too, but never really saw many of them.
Don't make the mistake that I did. I don't know if I caused any tragedies, but I put a bird feeder next to the butterfly bush.
Moved the bird feeder - after I thought about it.
I remember... 
Riding the mower. (I should have never said, I wanna ride it!, I'll do it! - my job forever on.)
I had about 3 acres. The birds! I looked like a shrimp boat out there, all following me, dipping suicidal-like right in front of me. Never hit one. Scooping moths and things that I stirred up. AHH! Nothing I could do. But watch them pick them off. Felt so bad at first.
That's when I thought about bird feeder and butterfly bush.
Farms stands are bursting, Spideyman
Riding the mower. (I should have never said, I wanna ride it!, I'll do it! - my job forever on.)
I had about 3 acres. The birds! I looked like a shrimp boat out there, all following me, dipping suicidal-like right in front of me. Never hit one. Scooping moths and things that I stirred up. AHH! Nothing I could do. But watch them pick them off. Felt so bad at first.
That's when I thought about bird feeder and butterfly bush.
Farms stands are bursting, Spideyman
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