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One happy hubby with lots of tomatoes.....home grown...by him!

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

I'm guilty!

I confess!  I did it!

I poked fun at my husband's tomato-growing prowess in past blogs.

The laugh is on me.  LOOK!

Rodger Duncan with tomatoes

He was SO successful this year with tomato growing that his friends run in the other direction when he starts toward them with another bag of tomatoes to give them.  He had to leave our little backyard to grow them.  He begged a row from his friend who has a horse in the perimeter so that the horse may have scared off the @#$%^ deer (his usual description of them) and may have also provided a little fertilizer.

Anyway, his success has been phenomenal and he deserves a little credit this time. Congratulations, Hubby!


The other blogs are shown here if you dare to look back.


http://activerain.com/blogsview/1078786/he-s-going-to-put-hair-on-his-tomato-plants-gardening-golfer-style-

http://activerain.com/blogsview/1120288/update-on-golfer-s-tomato-garden-and-all-that-hair-add-some-soap-

http://activerain.com/blogsview/1794820/there-s-no-hair-on-these-tomatoes-golfer-tomatoes-success-at-last-

http://activerain.com/blogsview/1140486/he-won-he-has-tomatoes-on-the-4th-of-july-tomato-growing-update-

http://activerain.com/blogsview/1156649/it-s-not-whether-you-win-or-lose-but-how-you-play-the-game-tomato-growing-included-

 


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Kerry L Klun, Broker/Owner
Palm Realty - Melbourne, FL
321-626-5868

Tomatoes are one of those things that is SOOOOO much better when you get them home grown!  Why don't you can them so you have some for the winter!

Jul 25, 2012 11:04 AM
Anonymous
Cliff

"Only two things mony can't buy, that's true love, and home grown tomatoes." - Guy Clark, country music song writer and singer.

Jul 25, 2012 01:19 PM
#2
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Kerry, I did experiment the other day with putting a tomato into boiling water, then in ice water and skinning it! I froze a few.  My mother never taught me how to can.  (For which I thank her!)

Cliff, you didn't spell tomatoes right.  For that song it is "tomaters."  LOL

Jul 25, 2012 10:12 PM
Anonymous
Anita Fuller

Boy, that's one tomato growing Dude!  Will I see him at the Farmer's Market this Saturday?

They are beautiful:  no sun cracks....he's found the secret.

I used to remove the skin, cut them up then freeze for chili, soups, etc.   My son has a big garden and he's been canning tomatoes all summer.....and making sweet pickles from his cucumbers.  My mother didn't teach me to can, either. Weren't we lucky? 

Jul 25, 2012 10:29 PM
#4
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Anita, if you come to Searcy in the next day or so, he'll give you some tomatoes!!  Our mothers must have known we were destined for bigger projects than canning....OR.....they thought we were too slow to teach.

Mary, Anita and I are SO sorry that your mom and grandmom considered you a really smart young girl!!  LOL

Jul 26, 2012 01:58 AM
Anonymous
Anita Fuller

Thank you for the invitation....and if my son weren't coming this afternoon, bringing bounty from HIS garden (tomatoes included)....I would take you up on that!    He's bringing squash, purple hull peas, tomatoes, okra. 

I have a memory from long ago:  My mother and her mother (my grandmother) canned tomatoes at our house on Arch Street one morning....and evidently used some newspapers - Searcy Daily Citizen....I was at Girl Scout Camp Ouachita...and later mother sent newspapers, some with tomato seeds and dried juice on them.  I was momentarily homesick for I could just picture mother and grandmother in our kitchen, canning.   Isn't it strange what we remember and DON'T remember?

Jul 26, 2012 02:18 AM
#6
Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

Well I am envious, big time, of all those tomaters. I have a few but mostly cherry. This heat has really slowed the production. I expect a rebound and a good crop toward October. 

The smell of tomatoes cooking for canning is quite distinctive. I think it's the acid content. I can remember my grandmother canning lots of tomaters. I can also remember eating them in the winter.

Jul 26, 2012 09:09 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Anita, congratulations on having a child who raises a garden!  They must be rare. I agree that you had a strange memory while at camp.  The smell of canning probably wouldn't have ever made me homesick.  I do remember all those jars having to be washed and then boiled in this big pot with the canned goods in the jars.

Don, I think the acid content of tomatoes that I have eaten like a pig are giving me a big case of face pimples! I look like a teenager....if you overlook the wrinkles.

Jul 26, 2012 10:40 AM
Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

I don't know about tomatoes causing pimples but if you Google "pimples tomatoes", you will find lots of articles about how tomatoes can be used to treat pimples. The idea is to rub the tomatioes on the infected areas or more specifically,  Before bathing, apply a mixture of fresh tomato pulp, honey and rose-water to your face and keep for twenty minutes before washing off.

We all need to see a picture of you, Barbara, with tomato juice and pulp all over your face.

Jul 26, 2012 10:57 PM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Don, when I read the directions at first it seemed easy.  Just rub your face with a tomato.  Right?  Then it went on to say that I have to have the pulp (mashed), honey (sticky), and rose-water!  What on earth is rose-water and where do you get that stuff.  I guess I'll just live with what I've got.  LOL

Jul 27, 2012 03:15 AM
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