hello ...thanks for the new forum
 

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hello everyone.
i am very happy to find this website, since i have been unable to post on gw's tomato forum for the last few weeks. i guess i need to upgrade my internet equipment.

i am happy to see some of my favorite tomato friends here.
i've been very busy here in texas building new beds,.(i have doubled the size of my garden, thanks to you folks,..earl and bully are probably going to cause my back to go out on me again..they are too generous with their seeds
)... moving railroad ties,filling beds with garden soil,forking wood chips for walkways,constructing 7 foot tomato cages (only 30...but it seemed more like 300),shredding, and spreading leaves, collecting hay and manure... i'm shooting for the biggest sad sac grown this year...LOL...

carolyn, i was so proud to hear of your progress with your diet..i think you've inspired a lot of us to thin down...thank you.
i just wanted to say hi, and thanks for the new website..

jeri

Hey, there, jeri. What varieties are you growing this year?

hello suze,
thanks for asking...so far i've got

lillian's yellow - 90 days
sungold - 57 days
kellogg's breakfast - 80 days
aunt ruby's german green -80 days
cherokee purple -80 days
carbon -80 days
black krim
black from tula - 75 to 80 days
black cherry - 65 days
coustralee - 82 days
brandywine (sudduth) - 85 days
orange heirloom
german johnson - 80 days
azoychka - 70 days
ananas noire - 80-85 days
dr lyle
mariannas peace
cherokee green
aunt gerties gold
yellow brandywine - 85
morgage lifter
german johnson - 80 days
sad sac ★ LOL
rinaldo
ernesto★★★
earls faux
yellow gooseberry -75 days
red brandywine - 75 days
sioux

i can't wait to put those babies in the ground!
carbon and kellogges breakfast still have not come up...
i will be looking for scott_from tx...i believe he will have both for sale this spring.

i have noticed you online, and wondered where you are, in this great big state.
you always have good advise, and gonefishing-(bill) always seem to hit the nail on the head for conditions here in tx.

i'm down here...halfway between dallas and houston. aggieland.

can you believe this weather?....i've been working in the garden with a t-shirt and shorts....getting a bit of sunburn...feels more like march-april than feb.

glad to be outside...doing garden stuff.

jeri

Hi jeri, good to see you here.

"...earl and bully are probably going to cause my back to go out on me again..they are too generous with their seeds."

Yep, it's always their fault...but they mean well. :-)

"...i'm shooting for the biggest sad sac grown this year."

With all that work you're doing, I do believe you could be right!! :o

Corona~Barb

Jeri, I'm in the metroplex. Fine list there -- I can definitely see the some of the Earl/Bully Influence. :)

You'll have to let me know how Sioux, Orange Heirloom, and Lillian's Yellow do for you.

Yep, this weather sure is something. I've already started putting my seedling flats out during the day, and will probably be planting up about 12 or so containers worth of earlies and compacts sometime next week. Varieties like New Big Dwarf, Kimberly, Lime Green Salad, Azoychka, Mountain Princess, Taxi, Green Grape-stuff like that.

Not more than I'm willing to pull into the garage on the one or two nights that I'll likely need to protect them.

Were you planning on planting a couple early?

Glad to see more people growing Orange Heirloom.
It really is a fine variety.
Jeri, you'll have to let me know what you think of it this
season.

Lee

hey there... corona-barb!

i'm glad to see you here as well! big hug for you. i admire you so much. kiss your mom for me....and say a prayer for duane...man..it really hurts to lose a parent.

suze...you really made my day...answering my post, the way you did. thank you.
i have 2 brothers in the metro plex
....one is a gardener...one is a fisherman....i love them both...and i'll never admit the one that makes me gush the most!..(because it's a tie! LOL)

lee....thank you for noticing that i'm growing orange heirloom.
i saw the picture of your orange heirloom you posted last summer....i fell in love.... i can hardly wait to try that beauty!

i am so happy to be able to talk to all of you....

jeri

Big thanks from me too for this forum!
 

I couldn't be able to post on GW for more than 1 year. So this is forum is very nice surprise to meet all of you, tomato-buddies!

Andrey,

Welcome to the newest tomato talk place on the web! Good to know you're still out there.

Come on in and join the rest of us tomato-heads. :D

P.S. My avatar is a Boney M I grew in 2005. Really like those small maters, good tart/bold taste! Thank you!

.....say, Andrey...ummm...you would not be going to to your local market this summer and buying tomatoes would you? Belarus must have some very nice heirloom varieties! Wait! don't throw that :arrow: ...dang.

I'm going to have to find some good trading seeds.

hi andrey...i must have joined the
gw tomato forum about the time you
lost your ability to post there.

these people are dangerous...and
now there is no hope for me...i'm
either on the forum...or working in
the garden. :P
thanks for posting...

jeri
who is going back outside to play in the dirt

Hi all! Great new forum. Happy to see so many of my old friends here.
Jim

So nice to see so many familiar folks here!
Looks like this forum's where the party is now!

Welcome, Mark!

I have more ultra early, cold tolerant and tasty varieties for this season.

And my avatar is our national Belarusian flag (second edition so far, very similar to what we had in Soviet Union times)

Seems to me Mischka was very fond of Green Mile movie (starring Tom Hanks) :wink: a la Mouseville :)
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hey!
treefrog!
how are you my friend?

i'm hoping you'll have a nice quiet hurricane season over there,.. this year.
it sure is good to see you.

jeri

i've got the seed you sent me, coming up under the lights..right now.