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ooh pretty AND yummy! :happy_flower

My whole yard is clay. I'm working on a new bed (actually heheee I have to college students doing the work for me as I type) Going to do a lasagna-type thing and see how it looks next spring. Thanks for the notation about NOT using sand! Also, re: composting: Can you compost your dog's fur...

what a treat!! :happy_flower

Coopy, don't know if they have canners. Sorry! They do resemble those types of jars you mentioned! JnJ - heheee, yeah ROADTRIP! :D

Hello Rosalind! I'll definitely let everyone know how they turn out, though I'm not canning today - trying to finish the fence we are building. I purchased a set of four of the medium size juice containers. They are so pretty! Wouldn't it be neat to travel the world and pick up different...

I took a trip to Kidron, OH to visit (and shop at) Lehman's. http://www.lehmans.com/ While there, I picked up some Weck canning jars. I'm super excited about using them. They're sooo pretty, too. Does anyone else use them? http://www.weckcanning.com/index.htm

thanks everyone! These are SOOOO tall - about 8 ft! I'll probably tear some of them out - the ones falling over...they obscure the phloxes (or is it phloxi?)

5 pints of dill pickles. I only had one pint left as my son and husband are eating them all up! If I could have found more pickling cukes at the roadside market, I would have bought 'em...as it was, it was hard to find these few!

...because it'll look like I don't know my weeds from a hole in the ground! It's among the phlox that the woman who owned our house before us had planted. Here's a detail of the head of the thing. Any ideas of what this may be? Thanks.

lovely! and I wish I could snooze w/that kitty!

LOVE it! :lol:

Thanks to all of you - we had MASSIVE amounts of rain at the beginning of the season and that probably meant, like you all suggestion, that the plant doesn't have a deep root structure. You guys/gals all rock! Thanks so much!

I think you hit the nail on the head - next year, I'll be putting my toms somewhere else! The amount of money I'm spending watering the darned thing is too much! Thanks so much for your advice!:bouquet

Hurrah! :happy_flower

Thanks OCF - it's frustrating because every morning the plant looks good, then when I get home from work at dinnertime it's all wilted. I water it, it plumps up (sometimes) and the cycle continues. There's three green tomatoes on it...I think I'll pull them off and then pull the plant up and...

oh how cool that you know this poem too!!!:)

oh that's delightful!!! That poem was the door opening into the world of poetry for me. I actually found a copy of the book of poems in which that was included on Ebay a few years ago!

I haven't noticed purple veining nor yellowing of the lower leaves (esp since I cut most of them off to begin with). I water this plant extensively, much more than any other of my plants. It will plump up for a bit, then wilt horribly in a few hours. Sigh again. I guess my tomato thumb isn't...

I'm looking forward to seeing what responses you get - I did that with one of my plants and it got super huge, but now wilts EVERY SINGLE DAY and I'm sure I should just pull the poor thing out, but I keep hoping I can save it. Not sure if cutting the bottom branches ruined it or not. Sigh.

I really appreciated that she talked about that (the fact that they choose special things that they really wanted that weren't local). There were a few things that irritated me, but then again, there's a few things that irritate me with a few books that I read! :D