hello :inlove:tomatoe lovers-got twelve plants today:inlove:

[SEMPERFI61]

bought the america's choice CELEBRITY AND THE new one BNP- 444( 1 POUNDERS).TOO WINDY TO PLANT SO HAVE TO WAIT.THE CELEBRITY READY IN 70 DAYS AFTER PLANTING.NOTHING BETTER THAN A TOMATOE WITH SALT AND PEPPER,YUMMMMMMY,YUMMMMMY.I LIKE THE ONES YOU CAN COVER THE WHOLE BURGER WITH one SLICE!!!GOD BLESS!

TOMATOE BILL

 

[Joe G]

a jack hammer to plant tomatoes Got a couple of inches of snow coming tonight. Monday, it's supposed to be in the 50's... Go figure

 

[SEMPERFI61]

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[Magyar]

One pounders?? Yikes! I'd love to grow those...I like those "one on a hamburger also"

Snow still on the ground here...and more predicted for tomorrow...so what..the detector can pick up targets through the snow. I'm going tomorrow

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

you will have fruit when I start planting! I hope them worms leave me alone this year!

 

[SEMPERFI61]

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[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

I will look when it gets closer to planting time!

 

[Jim West Pa]

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[Jim West Pa]

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[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

With nine of those who needs maters!

 

[Magyar]

Jim, I love those chickens, ( or are they called hens...it is terrible that I don't know the difference :sad but I really like them..

My Grandmother used to raise them ...in the "40's ...way back..and also when I was a kid, the people next door had a hen house in the back yard and I used to love to go and pick up the eggs with the lady.

How many chickens ( hens ) do you own?

 

[Jim West Pa]

Hi Magyar, yes the are hens, female chickens :| .Technicaly they are janets, my wife, but you know who gits to care for them every day :lol
She has 8 so far. They are "puletts" 9 month old hens. They started to lay a month early,'bout 3 weeks ago, but we still only get one egg every other day. That will change once the warm weather gits and stays here. Them fresh eggs sure do taste goooood
Once they settle in and get "normal" we should have upwards of 6-8 eggs every day. Hope the neighbors like fresh eggs :l
No, they probably will never end up in the pot or on the grill. Janet gave them all names
We'll git us a roo next month and start lettin a few of the gilrs set and make littelins.
Like i said.."8 so far"

 

[Jim West Pa]

even with birds Mike, you kow what they say 'bout life and homegrowndamaters
Oh yeah, we gots 8 ...so far

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

You said I need nine, but you now have 8? Did you eat one!

 

[Magyar]

Jim,

Thank you for explaining about the hens to me.....I wish I could own a few..I think I would know how to care for them, but we are not zoned for chickens;
Up the street from us, a man keeps roosters ..I am told his property is "grandfathered in" so that he can keep the roosters on his property from long ago.

Every morning I can hear the roosters..and I love to listen to them, but most of the nieghbors are "up in arms" about this situation.

Here is a pic of Hank's and my humble garden plot ....just waiting for warmer weather...we plant tomatoes , peppers, cukes, eggplant, and a few other things.

 

[Jim West Pa]

I recently came form a place that had those "grandfather" laws.Every time i would get a pet that wasn't a cat or a dog my "neighbors" would call the law and i was forced to get rid of it.
I had very little space there to garden so i would use my flower boxes around my porch and many many plant pots to grow my veggies. The last year i lived there i planted pumpkins and corn in the front yard by digging basketball sized hoes and filling them with miracle grow dirt. You guessed it, again my "neighbors" tried to have my plants removed. God gave us the dirt to use and grow what we need, not just chemicalized grass.
We now have a wonderfull yard that God blessed us with and no critter laws.We can finaly use the wondeffull resources that God gave us .
Here is a pic of our garden area. It is about 30 by 80 foot. I cannot wait to git some seeds and plants in the ground !!!!!
That is our temporary chikcen coop under that tarp lol. I will build a much bigger and nicer one come spring.

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There are two wonderfull apple trees over there at the edge of the fence. And as you can see, we have no other houses around us in all directions. Nothing but woods and critters. Guess i'll hafta grow enough them also lol

 

[Magyar]

Jim, I like the photo of your homesite very much!

The garden area and the coop are great!

I remember my grandmother's home site with the chicken coops, the ducks, pigs and a cow that she raised, and the hugh garden with rows and rows of all types of vegetables, and the large seating area underneath a hugh rectangular grapevine growth. ( she had immigrated from Czechoslovakia from a farming region) .

and do you know what happened to this precious property? The state of Ct. in the name of "progress" made my grandmother and all her neighbors sell the land to them and they mowed everything down and built Rte 8 ( north-south) all along the western side of Ct. The highway that I travel now runs directly over the property that I used to love so much as a child.

To this day, whenever I travel up north and I pass by the former site of my grandmother's property, I can vividly see in my mind..very clear images of the former land- all the coops, gardens, swings, chicken , roosters..etc...and I am saddened that it is all gone

but what beautiful memories of childhood days spent at "Baba's " house every weekend.

 

[Mike Chgo area]

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