Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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May 14, 2012 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: San Marcos, Texas
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Happy World Naked Gardening Day!
A friend of mine brought this to my attention, wanted to know if I was participating...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Naked_Gardening_Day |
May 14, 2012 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Whidbey Island, WA Zone 7, Sunset 5
Posts: 931
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Oh, my neighbors would love that!
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May 14, 2012 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brownville, Ne
Posts: 3,293
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That'd keep the varmints out of the tomato patch.
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May 14, 2012 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: San Marcos, Texas
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LOL... I told my friend I might consider it if I had a privacy fence, but I don't. Oh well!
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May 14, 2012 | #5 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
Posts: 38,539
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Doing it right now.
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May 14, 2012 | #6 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Maryland's Eastern Shore
Posts: 993
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What?
Are we only supposed to do this one day of the year? It gets way to hot out there to keep the clothes on! LOL
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May 14, 2012 | #7 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Whidbey Island, WA Zone 7, Sunset 5
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Do you ride naked, too, George?
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May 14, 2012 | #8 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Maryland's Eastern Shore
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No way, that asphalt would be really nasty if I were to go down! If I go down in the garden I'll just end up with a skin rash.... not road rash! I usually don't start out naked and it usually won't happen before some time in June. What happens is I go out to the garden in the morning while it is cool. That turns into staying out there longer than planned until I am hot and sweaty as all blazes. I look up and see the pool just a few feet away. Well, it's just a natural course of events. I guess at that point I am not really gardening but hanging over the edge of the pool looking at my garden while skinny dipping.
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George _____________________________ "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure." Thomas Jefferson, 1787 Last edited by RebelRidin; May 14, 2012 at 04:06 PM. |
May 14, 2012 | #9 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: San Marcos, Texas
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Just be careful with sunburn in areas that don't normally see the light of day!
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May 14, 2012 | #10 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Campbell, CA
Posts: 4,064
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Yep, celebrating the Happy World Naked Gardening Day right now:
Raybo |
May 14, 2012 | #11 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: 6a - NE Tennessee
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I tried it last year and the cop that showed up wrote me a ticket for "visual polution".
I thought about protesting to the officer that showed up because I was on my own property, but SHE didn't seem to have much of a sense of humor left. It's tough to be 67 years old.
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May 14, 2012 | #12 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
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One word of warning.
Don't go swimming in a creek on World Naked Gardening Day with snapping turtles. Worth |
May 14, 2012 | #13 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Ontario
Posts: 211
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Oh, sure, Neohippie, it's all very well to declare May 14 World Naked Gardening Day when you're in Texas! What about us Zone 5-ers? I suppose I would have survived it today---high of about 65---but it wouldn't have been comfortable, and really, what's the point of being in the garden if it isn't making you feel good? And as all Zone 5 tomato growers know, most years we could easily get frost mid-May.
If it's going to catch on in Ontario, it's going to have to be a bit later in the year. Talk to me in August and I think I could get into this idea. (Tomatoes are tall enough then to provide some cover, too....) Mind you, that makes it winter in Australia and New Zealand. I think there might have to be two different dates to make it a truly "world" event.... Z |
May 14, 2012 | #14 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Floyd VA
Posts: 771
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Hopefully my next house/farm will be rural enough for nuding about outdoors. If not, hopefully the neighbors will be tolerant types. If not, too bad!
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May 14, 2012 | #15 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Hickory,North Carolina
Posts: 470
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I've been skinny dipping as a teenager. If I went now I'd have to call it chunky dunkin.
But going into the garden nekid ! With packsaddles and cow killers (velvet ants) skeeters and no-see-ums ! No thank you ! If there's two things every wild eyed southern boy knows by age ten, It is that you don't want chiggers.... And the second thing ? you REALLY don't want chiggers ummm some places..LOL For those of you lucky enough to have never had a chigger bite, Think of poison oak rash when you get in a hot shower. It itches like something is trying to burrow into your skin and lasts for a couple of weeks. Just one encounter and I learned walk a 10 foot circle around Queen Ann's lace ! (Called Chigger bushes when I was a kid) Later I learned that the flower don't have any direct thing to do with the mites, they just like the same boundary areas. (same as ticks, where the white tailed deer and other animals like to walk) The mites climb grass or weeds and wait for a poor animal to pass by so they can hop on. |
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