My personal "rule" is I can't buy anything at a thrift store unless I take in a donation.
I think of it as trading in my clothes.
I think of it as trading in my clothes.
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No thanks!But you could have been ground 0 for the invasion!
That's the first time I've seen a plant with a normal name hahaThey named it Aubrey after the plant in Little Shop of Horrors.
Ditto! I take several bags, then I can let myself go in to see what they've got, but I only get maybe a few necessity or useful type items. Recently, they had a bunch of 100% cotton & 80% cotton 20% polyester t shirts. I got several for my sweetheart & me. They are the best & most comfortable, especially when working. These darn newer shirts at retail stores are mixing some stretchy weave, it makes ya sweat! Cotton Poly mix is ok but some of those newer t shirts they try to pass off these days are nasty fabrics, make ya get overheated then look 50 yrs old washed just once. The thrift stores are great for finding mostly cotton. They had about 100 shirts still with tags on them, donated from various places. They've become our favorite shirts to wear.My personal "rule" is I can't buy anything at a thrift store unless I take in a donation.
I think of it as trading in my clothes.
Your tomatoes are looking great! I plant between 40 to 50 tomatoes every year to keep us stocked in the winter. I store them in a variety of ways. I can most of them but I store lots in the freezer before so I don't have to can in the summer.@Sally PB , I have a bottle of celery seed if I need celery flavor in something. The seeds don't get slimy. LOL
Last summer when my tomatoes were in their productive mode I put a lot of whole tomatoes in gallon bags, which I froze. I ended up with 7 gallons of whole tomatoes in the freezer.
I opened up the last bag today, so I'm going to need to preserve more tomatoes this year. I could've eaten a lot more tomatoes than I did over the winter but I wanted to make them last.
Because whole tomatoes take up a lot of space, I'm going to need to cook them before freezing, or start using my canner.
I have a lot more tomato plants to put in the garden this year, so I think I'll get enough to keep me happy next winter.
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One of my favorite things to do is oven roast tomatoes, then freeze that until I'm ready to can. Then when I'm running out of room I'm the freezer I weigh out what I have, thaw it out and can it. I try to do at least 3 cases of roasted, 1 case of whole peeled, and 2 cases of diced. I only plant two or three slicing tomatoes, one or two sungolds, the rest are paste types. Which I use for just about everything anyways.Your tomato plants look great. I'm thinking like you and going to freeze or can more tomatoes this year.
Tordon works.I plan to get more trumpet vines for the bees. I figure if the vine can out grow the brome grass in the field, well, goodie for it and the bees.
I read a review on a site that sold trumpet vine. The person said NOTHING could kill it. Not cutting it down, not burning, nothing. They didn't mention using the G-word (glyphosate). They named it Aubrey after the plant in Little Shop of Horrors.