Ducks 4 in '24

[ducks4you]

Harvested 45 tomatoes in the last 2 days. DH was holding his breath. Can't beLIEVE you planted in July and got something!
Pretty good harvest, and the three 2023 volunteer tomatoes REALLY produced. They are the wrinkly ones...'cause they're old. I had to throw a previously harvested tomato out for lawn fertilizer, SO, it was time to can. I canned the less than perfect fruit.

 

[ducks4you]

I also harvested cucumbers. There were 2 Ashley's, 1, the first, Muncher, and several more Martini's. I had to eat One Martini bc it was growing through the chicken wire. THEN, I had to eat the Muncher bc it fell off of the DR table and broke in two. The rest went to DD's house, or made it into today's lunch salad, still several left over and they were 8-9 inches long.

 

[SPedigrees]

Gonna share my recent xrays. So Spooky...so Scary!!!
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[baymule]

What a beautiful tomato harvest.

 

[SPedigrees]

Gonna share my recent xrays. So Spooky...so Scary!!!
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These look familiar. My right knee looks just like one of these; my left knee is a bit better. Being strongly right-handed, my "good knee" is of little use to me. Wearing a wrap around my bad knee when I walk out across uneven ground, or lift/carry heavy things keep pain away and prevent me from further damaging it. No bionic parts for me. I plan to go out with all my original ones, regardless of how shot they may be. I have "organ donor" ticked off on my drivers license, but pretty sure they won't be able to salvage much from me.

Best of luck to you though for your knee replacements. I hope they go smoothly.

 

[SPedigrees]

Usually GE seeds have heavy weight legal clauses attached to them such that you can't save them, which is why I asked. Maybe things have changed, but there have been several litigation cases in the past where people got into serious trouble saving seeds with GE genetics in them, usually corn because the pollen carries on the wind from one field into neighbouring fields belonging to others. The Percy Shmeiser case comes to mind.

Farmers’ rights advocate Percy Schmeiser has died at age 89.

Canadian farmer and activist Percy Schmeiser, best known for his battle against Monsanto over crop patent rights, died on October 13 at the age of 89.

foodtank.com

I've always wondered the relationship between the purple tomatoes and GE'ing, I've seen quite a few articles over the years about that. I have a lot of 'blue' or purple tomatoes in my seed hoard, some look like eggplant at full maturity but they're OP seeds.

Rest in peace Percy Schmeiser. Hadn't heard of him before, but good for him. Monsanto is evil incarnate.