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He's going to put hair on his tomato plants?????????? Gardening, golfer-style.

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

Perhaps being married to a blogger makes you fair game.  Of course, he didn't ask for it when he married me because he didn't know I'd become a tattler on a blog site.  But he's stuck now.

What is his latest thing to do?

He went to the barber shop and gathered human hair to put around his six  four tomato plants!

This guy has decided to grow a garden on our vacant lot.  All he can handle with his golfing schedule are tomato plants.  So this year so he got out the post-hole diggers and dug four holes.  Around the holes he put plastic (that's the blue stuff shown below) so that there would be a minimum of weeds for him to contend with. He purchased four tomato plants and put them in the holes along with four NAILS.

The nails, he says, is to keep the cut worms from eating his plants.  The nails snuggle right beside the little plants.

The plants are now about a foot high.  When he is not golfing he checks the plants.  He came in screaming the other day about the deer eating the tops off two of his plants!!  Furious he was;  the nerve of those deer!  You can see in the pictures below where those brazen deer nipped them.

So he announces that he's going to the barber shop to collect some human hair to put around his tomato plants!  He came back with a bag, spread it around his garden and is now waiting to see what the deer do.

Pictures follow.  The hair looking stuff is.....well, it's hair!   The newspaper?  Holds the moisture in around the plant, says he.  Why is it around only one plant?  He had to go to the golf course, of course.

Rodger's garden

 Rodger's garden

 Rodger's garden

 Rodger's garden

Methinks we're in the market to buy tomatoes again this year!

Donna Harris
Donna Homes, powered by JPAR - TexasRealEstateMediationServices.com - Austin, TX
Realtor,Mediator,Ombudsman,Property Tax Arbitrator

You should get him a Topsey Turvy.  It works great, though I've only had it for 2 weeks.

May 17, 2009 03:14 AM
Jason Crouch
Austin Texas Homes, LLC - Austin, TX
Broker - Austin Texas Real Estate (512-796-7653)

Yikes!  This is just one more reason why I do not garden or deal with plants in any way.  I have a notorious "black thumb" when it comes to gardening. :)

May 17, 2009 03:16 AM
Suesan Jenifer Therriault
JTHIS-Professional Home Inspection Team - Blakeslee, PA
"Inspecting every purchase as if it were my own".

Barbara, sounds like a plan to me. We have our garden completely fenced in because of the deer, wish I had known about the hair trick before I splurged for all that chain-link ... LOL. Keep us posted on how it works out.
Sue

May 17, 2009 04:33 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

James, with ONE  plant you qualify to do a blog about how much time a real estate agent has to do a garden! 

Melissa, I hope we have tomatoes.  I suspect we'll have to buy them again this year.

Lourdes, I'm curious also.  I'll let everyone know if we have tomatoes. 

Mark, stay tuned for a few weeks.....possibly days if the deer return.

Eric, I've never heard of that.  Wonder where they get their hair?  And it kills weeds and acts as fertilizer? 

May 17, 2009 04:55 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Tom, I love that comment! 

Betina, you grow tomatoes too?

Michael, we'll see if it works here.

Dedra, that's a funny comment!  Thanks.

Andrew, how about a picture illustrating what you stated about paper pots?

Donna, I took in your blog and saw the topsy turvy.  That's a first for me and I'll show it to hubby as soon as he gets in from golfing.

Jason, I'm the same way.  AND, he's the same way too.  He's forgotten how miserably he failed the last time he tried the tomato patch.

Suesan, I'd think the deer would just hop over the chain link and eat the garden.  I'll let everyone know if this works.

May 17, 2009 05:00 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Maybe he needs a scarecrow, too, or to put aluminum foil around the cages. The plastic is a good idea, but hair? I've never heard of using hair as mulch. Newspapers, yes, crumpled up, but not lying flat. I think you can be deer repellent thingies and you could hang them on the tomato cages. If they survive, I'm betting you'll have a lot of tomatoes. Providing squirrels don't steal them.

sacramento agent

May 17, 2009 05:27 AM
Suesan Jenifer Therriault
JTHIS-Professional Home Inspection Team - Blakeslee, PA
"Inspecting every purchase as if it were my own".

Barbara, my husband thought so as well, but we had no problems what so ever last year and I had a full garden.

May 17, 2009 05:31 AM
Kate Kate
San Diego, CA

Barbara, Are you sure you didn't scalp Nutsy? heheh. kate ford (a nicer grandma than god-mother)

May 17, 2009 06:26 AM
Donna Harris
Donna Homes, powered by JPAR - TexasRealEstateMediationServices.com - Austin, TX
Realtor,Mediator,Ombudsman,Property Tax Arbitrator

With the topsey turvy, he could spend even more time on the golf course as it takes care of itself!

May 17, 2009 07:37 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Elizabeth, I think the hair is not mulch but probably a scent to scare the deer away.  I hope that some day in the future the hair remains will not be discovered and the cops will think there is a body somewhere nearby.

Suesan, as busy as you are, I don't know how you find time for a garden.  You must have a lot of helpers.  What did you think of my website suggestions for you?

Kate, you DID prove to be a less-than-stellar godmoma but I appreciated the short service.  LOL

Donna, we need a report periodically.  Like....what happens as the plant grows taller?  Do you hang the thing higher up in the tree?

May 17, 2009 08:21 AM
Kate Kate
San Diego, CA

Sorry to abandon you. I discovered a heavier load than I was prepared to shoulder. But if you ever need a vacation or personal day, I can buck up and watch over the little guy in your absence. I promise to put aside my differences AND make you proud.

Fresh home grown tomatoes are a meal in themselves. Assuming the hair is a solution, will you cook with the tomatoes too?  kate ford

May 17, 2009 09:49 AM
Charles Buell
Charles Buell Inspections Inc. - Seattle, WA
Seattle Home Inspector

This sounds like a giant tomato movie in the making:)

May 17, 2009 12:35 PM
Steven L. Smith
King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. - Bellingham, WA
Bellingham WA Home Inspector

Mrs Barbara,

This is the squirrel hunter. I suggest you cut him out of the estate plan and provide better for one more deserving and more loving.

Your favorite Godson,

Nutsy W

May 17, 2009 01:50 PM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Kate!  You changed your picture.  Nutsy noticed.  Home grown tomatoes are such a delight.  Fortunately, we have a few inside places to buy them if this hairy trick fails.

Charles, I think I should have said that he put the hair AROUND  the tomatoes not ON them.  LOL

Nutsy, he is the squirrel hunter....but reformed since he met you.  My plan is to get him to include my godson in his estate too!!  Be patient.    

May 17, 2009 02:12 PM
Carol Culkin
Diamond Partners Inc - Overland Park, KS
Overland Park Residential Real Estate

Barbara - It seems that a trip to the grocery store would be so much easier.

May 18, 2009 03:04 PM
James Quarello
JRV Home Inspection Services, LLC - Wallingford, CT
Connecticut Home Inspector

My garden was raided at the end of last year by a deer. It ate everything, but the tomatoes. I am fencing it in this year.

May 19, 2009 02:13 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Carol, grocery stores have crummy tomatoes.  You have to have a secret source of home-grown tomatoes and buy when freshly picked.  I have a source, fortunately!!  (The source is not my husband, of course.)

James, the deer don't like tomatoes?  Fencing gets to be expensive. 

May 19, 2009 03:32 AM
C. Bartch
Newark, OH

Hi Barabara, I've not decided who is funnier your husband w/ his horticulture project or you for this great blog! If interested, here are 2 good sites for tomato growers here & here!

Jun 02, 2009 11:55 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Cynthia, he's the weird one.  I tell him he's a wealth of blog fodder but some things are too bad to blog about.  LOL.  I'll go search the sites you mention. 

Jun 02, 2009 12:46 PM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

I have updated this weird continuing story on my blog today.  Go visit if you'd like. http://activerain.com/blogsview/1120288/update-on-golfer-s-tomato-garden-and-all-that-hair-add-some-soap-

Jun 18, 2009 05:24 AM