End of the season and time to reflect #2: The heirloom Tomatoes season 2009
This was a good year for tomatoes here . Off to a slow start with cold and snow, it recovered in June and has been warm and sunny for the remainder of the summer right up into September.We have had little rain which caused a bit of over wate...
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MsDebbieP
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posted 896 days ago
hey Bob.. Welcome to GT!! :)
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GrandmaT
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posted 896 days ago
Hi Bob … WELCOME to GardenTenders!!
-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI - Zone 5
inthedirttn
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posted 893 days ago
Hello !! Welcome to “GT”
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Eklectic
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posted 892 days ago
Hi Bob,
Welcome to GT:-) from a former “Albertan”
-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a
Bob
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posted 892 days ago
Eklectic I lived in Aylmer , toronto, and Ottawa for brief patches as a youth.
I have fond memories of those places.
You wouldn’t be down in that small mouth bass country ??
Bob
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MsDebbieP
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posted 892 days ago
Aylmer – home of the OPP training site and the big stop over of swans! :)
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan
Bob
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posted 892 days ago
Yep, My daddy started up the Service Police school there in 1954.
I started my lifeguard training there and completed it.
I boxed under Wes Burnell there for two years.
I picked and hoed tobacco for pennies and spent the best months of my youth in that area.
bob
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MsDebbieP
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posted 891 days ago
now isn’t that fascinating!!! Cool.
Tilsonburg, oh Tilsonburg .. my back still aches when I hear that word :)
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan
Bob
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posted 891 days ago
Debbie:
I’ll take you to Paris ,London, Stratford,Vienna , Tilsonburg! <vbg>
Bob
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Eklectic
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posted 891 days ago
Bob, I am now south of Ottawa, but have lived in Orleans, (Ottawa) at one point, as well as Kamloops, Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey and I was forgetting “Orchard Time” in Osoyoos B.C.
As well as Montreal and suburbs.
We were in Calgary and thoroughly enjoyed it. Just love the “old west”.
-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a
MsDebbieP
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posted 891 days ago
hahaha Bob you are hilarious!! :)
and then there’s Boston and we have to go to Woodstock (that should be a good show, don’t you think??)
haha
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan
Bob
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posted 891 days ago
Debbie:
Whatever happened to Berlin?
Didn’t they change it to Delhi or something?
Eklectic, lifes’ greatest gift is that we are allowed to travel!
Ahem, Young lady, I see you’ve been around! <vbg>
Just keedink!
Bob
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Eklectic
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posted 890 days ago
Sure have!:-)
And hoping to get around some more!!
-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a
MsDebbieP
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posted 890 days ago
Berlin is Kitchener now I do believe.
and Delhi is still Delhi (about a 1/2 hour drive away for me)
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan
PanamaJack
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posted 883 days ago
Welcome to the flower show! We hope you enjoy the time spent on your GardenTenders website.
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posted 703 days ago
HI Bob
WElcome to this part of the world
It is just the best place there is to chat about gardening and all other things in life
-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.
Bob
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posted 703 days ago
Well thank you very much Bunting.
Do you folks ever get talking about better plant care and the like?
I’m really interested in sustainable methods of home gardening.
Bob
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MsDebbieP
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posted 702 days ago
you name it and we’ve talked about it!!
and if, by chance, you have a new topic (or want a repeat of an old topic) just put it out there and you’ll get lots of conversation about it
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan
Bob
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posted 702 days ago
Thanks Deb.
Bob
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MsDebbieP
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posted 702 days ago
:)
I’m sure the site will keep getting better and better and better, as members post their interests and questions.
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GrandmaT
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posted 438 days ago
Bob, love the new avatar!!! :-)
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Bob
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posted 437 days ago
Thanks GT. It’s kinna like the old Mr Heinz .
and I’m kinna like a tomato guy! <g>
Bob
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GrandmaT
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posted 437 days ago
OHHHHH, you are right … man that took me back ….
Did I tell ya we got our first tomato of the season??!!!!! You know I am new to this whole veggie thing. Anyway, a critter (or something) got to the bottom of this one tomato. Soooooo we couldn’t eat it, but it was sure pretty to look at (if you didn’t turn it over to check out the bottom – LOL!!). Sooooo now just gotta wait for the other tomatoes to redden up. I LOVE TOMATOES!!!! Eat em’ just like apples with a bit of salt!
-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI - Zone 5
Bob
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posted 437 days ago
Grandma T.
Check out the other Toms. too. they may be having a bout with blossom end rot.
You may be able to halt it with a calciium supplement.
Just guessing from the description and I am well know to be wrong.
Bob
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GrandmaT
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posted 437 days ago
Ohhhhhh, thanks, I’m gonna go outside right now and check. Let ya know cuz if so, I may need some advice from ya … if you don’t mind.
-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI - Zone 5
GrandmaT
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posted 408 days ago
Okay Bob … your avatars are making me giggle!!!!!
-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI - Zone 5
Bob
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posted 408 days ago
Grandma T, I’m just trying to find something a bit closer to the way some people view me on this forum. ;-)

myspace layouts
Cheers
Bob
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GrandmaT
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posted 408 days ago
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love the CHICKEN; and some days man do I feel like this!!! And I am not sure this last avatar really represents you … somehow I don’t see you as the “old guy” ... so keep trying will ya … ;-)
-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI - Zone 5