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Today was a fabulous day and I did not get much accomplished other than weed-eating around the edges of the house and fruit trees. Yesterday I stopped at the City of Stillmore's new monthly Farmer's market which was more like a Flea Market/Neighborhood yard sale. There was all kinds of cool stuff though. I bought two of those Topsy Turvey hanging planters one for upside down tomatoes and one for upside down strawberries, I paid .75 cents for each of them...such a deal! I had tomato plants sitting in my kitchen window-sill waiting for the chance of frost to pass before putting them in the ground. Today I filled the bright green planter with gardening soil and stuck a tomato in the bottom. It has 9 more holes in the sides for herbs/flowers. I know I will get some rosemary and add to it, any more suggestions for herbs that will grow well with tomatoes? The strawberry one has 15 holes and it says it can hold double strawberry plants, so this week I will get me 30 strawberries and plant them too. I keep thinking of how much I love home grown tomatoes and we have not done well with them in the garden for the past two years. Last year the hogs rooted everything up and the year before, stink bugs were so bad...we just could not get rid of them, no one in this area had any tomatoes that year. I'm hoping that if everything else goes wrong, maybe my porch hanging planters will produce for me! We put the blue tooth speakers outside and just kinda hung out on the porch listening to music and enjoying the sunshine. After all of the work on the fence we are just pausing for a moment before the summer chores of mowing and intensive gardening begins. My onions are about two weeks from harvest....they are huge. We live in the area of the soil that grow the Sweet Vidalia Onions. I love those things and I'm excited to find out if our dirt has the magic sweetner in it :) I hope everyone had a lovely weekend and managed to renew enough to begin the grind again tomorrow. Tomorrow is Tax day so don't forget to mail your returns. (those of you who, like me, still labor away at a paper return) See ya'll later!
Diet Calendar Entries for 17 April 2016:
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1116 kcal
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Fat: 93.75g | Prot: 49.00g | Carb: 20.46g.
Breakfast: Skinnygirl Stevia Extract, Coffee. Lunch: Great Value Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Smoked or Cured Ham, Cuties Mandarin Orange, Vlasic Petite Dill Pickles, Fried Egg, Bacon. Dinner: Better Body Foods Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, Smucker's Natural Creamy Peanut Butter, Friendly Farms Heavy Whipping Cream, Kerrygold Unsalted Pure Irish Butter. more...
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2453 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Resting - 16 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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LOVE Sweet Vidalia's!! We get them in our grocery stores once in the summer and that is it. Are you in Georgia? Your day sounded awesome!! I hope your Topsy Turvy garden gives you a lot of produce. We did our taxes at the first of February. We owed state this year. That really sucked.
17 Apr 16 by member: Mom2Boxers
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I suggest growing basil with the tomatoes. They taste excellent together, either raw or cooked.
17 Apr 16 by member: erikahollister
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Basil shall be added to the gotta get list! Thank you! Mom, I live 25 miles away from Vidalia, the first week of May is the Annual Vidalia Sweet Onion Festival, it's everything onion. The onions are seasonal, harvest time begins now, they ship out to all over and it's great to have them readily available in the stores and at road side stands everywhere. This is our first year planting them. If you have the right type of soil, you get the sweet flavorful onions, if your soil is lacking the magic ingredient they will turn out like a regular white onion. The tops of ours are yellowish....so I'm hoping we had enough magic soil to make them sweet. It would be great to be able to grow our own. They get planted in November and harvested in April. No weeding, minimal watering, just feed them occasionally. They also seem to not have anything that wants to eat them other than people. Our wild garlic is also blooming, we will have onions and garlic....just waiting for tomatoes!
17 Apr 16 by member: debrafrederick
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I was thinking you lived in GA too Mom, perhaps the northern area where it snows. I say this because when I have sunny days, so do you and you have the wind storms when we have the wind storms and we have rain together. The only thing I don't get is the snow :)
17 Apr 16 by member: debrafrederick
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Gotta love that "weed eating"... Hope you're in Colorado...
17 Apr 16 by member: jimmiepop
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So that's what stink bugs eat!
17 Apr 16 by member: trackin64
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I live in the mountains of Virginia near the West Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina borders. We pick up the weather first, I guess, being further North of you. I have a niece that lives in Suwanee, GA. Because our ground gets below freezing sometimes in the winter, I don't think we can plant them here. That would be so cool if we could.
18 Apr 16 by member: Mom2Boxers
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Ahhh yes, you get to try out my weather before I get it :) and you get to keep all the frozen stuff :) Interestingly enough Mom, Vidalia Onions are plain old white onions, something in the soil here gives them their sweetness, if you take the onions anywhere else and plant them...you have plain white onions. They did find an area in Texas that gets pretty sweet, but they don't quite reach the level of sweetness and flavor that these have. The nearest onion farm is about 6 miles away, the only way we will know if we have the magic dirt is to grow them and taste them. Mine are getting a slight yellow tint, that is a very good sign!
18 Apr 16 by member: debrafrederick
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LOL my husband just informed me that the onions are not white, but yellow granax and the magic dirt ingredient is a LACK of sulpher, that is why they now have the yellow tint. He said he planted them three weeks later than they should have been planted so we probably won't be harvesting them till the beginning of May. Now that I have been schooled on my facts.....I'm still excited!
19 Apr 16 by member: debrafrederick
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Oh I am so glad to be educated about the mystery of the glorious Sweet Vidalia Onion!! This is so interesting to me. As soon as they are available in the grocery stores, I scoop them up.
19 Apr 16 by member: Mom2Boxers
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We got basil and Boston Pickling cucumbers to share the tomato container, I put the rosemary in the top of the strawberries, did some reading and discovered basil and rosemary don't like sharing space. They look very cool, I got three different varieties of strawberries, one is early, one is mid-season and one is ever-bearing, I think I covered all of my bases there!
21 Apr 16 by member: debrafrederick
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You are doing your homework. I bet you have a lovely topsy turvy garden when they start producing. Glad you mentioned romsemary and basil don't like being side by side. I have a large planter on my deck where I grow my herbs. I will keep them apart.
21 Apr 16 by member: Mom2Boxers
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