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I read that article...and find it kind of funny. I like the flavor of it in salsa.

We haven't planted Romas for many, many a long year...back when I was a youngster. But, I am so in love with homemade salsa and spaghetti sauce now that I've decided it was time to dust off the paste tomato and give it another whirl. Making it with regular tomatoes just yields a too watery salsa and sauce...too much waste happens along the way.
 

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Just noticed all kinds of new growth on my apple trees, particularly at the place where I pruned some large limbs. I'll watch for water sprouts and take them off in July, and these other leafy growths I will watch and when they get big enough to train, I'll train them in the way they should go.

Noticed all kinds of little apples on the trees that I pruned that hadn't really bore any fruit for the past 20 yrs. :weee Those blossoms got pollinated!!!! Now, to keep the squirrels from stealing all the green apples...they are bad for that around here. I'll be picking them off with Dad's old open sight .22 this year....VERY accurate gun that was given to him as a child and used to be his dad's(read OLD), as I am determined to get a fruit crop off those trees, no matter how small.

We are overrun with squirrels around here, now that hardly anyone hunts squirrels and eats them...used to they were kept in check with hunting and by foxes, owls, and other aerial preds but there seems to be an imbalance in the forest right now.
 

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We can still get it but it's high dollar...which is so weird to us, as we used to buy a box of 500 shells for under $5. I don't waste them by target practicing, so I should have enough to pick off some squirrelies here.
 
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