No cellophane or styrofoam
enclose vegetables that
ripen with deep roots in loam.
But tomatoes need attention
from sunshine and gardener —
saving seeds is an obsession.
A good soaking for the seed
then planting in warm soil —
water, fertilize, stake and weed.
Year after year, they grow
Are they fruit or vegetable?
They’re silent. They don’t know.
Copyright 2015 Brenda Davis Harsham
Note: I harvested the last of my tomatoes before the recent frost. They were a poor crop this year. Free roaming turkeys ate most of my garden. Ten roost in the maple outside my bedroom window, nearly invisible, except when coming or going.
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“BABY, YOU’RE A RIPE TOMATO…READY FOR PICKING!”
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I love warm tomatoes from the garden, on toast with a little spread of mayo, or adding bacon and spinach leaves, Brenda. Yum!
I went back a little to find this nice post. Sorry, at this time, you were still in pain. The wild turkeys on my friend, Bill’s farm house property they would walk on his stone driveway. They almost sauntered. 🙂
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They sure have no fear.
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Take care of your “green thumb” Nothing like fresh from the garden and your fresh and lovely words.
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Thanks!
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Glad you got to harvest some of your crop!
I’ve never seen a wild turkey.
Maybe there is something you can plant, that you don’t like but the turkeys do. Then they will fill up on that plant, and leave your other crops alone?
Lol, another crazy Resa suggestion!
Hope you are healing up well.
Cheers!
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Typing still hurts. I’m hoping if I take off this week, next week might be better. 🙂 Still trying to keep up on comments, though.
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Definitely no cellophane or styrofoam, that would be wonderful, I can only dream of tomatoes like that now, and remember my mothers beautiful tomatoes in the green house when I was a little girl (can still smell that pungent green smell in a hot glass house) and to think I hated tomatoes in those days too. What was I thinking!!
I just can’t imagine a whole load of free roaming turkeys eating your lovely vegetables. It sounds so funny, but I guess it’s no laughing matter at all to lose something so precious. Are there any ways of scaring them away? Perhaps a huge turkey like scarecrow – Big Bird from Sesame Street?!! 😉
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A greenhouse is just what I need! LOL As if! Actually one of my neighbors has one. I don’t have enough land for that.
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It wasn’t very big, probably the size of a small garden shed. You can get mini ones, even tomato growing tents, they take up very little room. But if you have turkeys roaming around best pin it to the ground, they might eat that too! 🙂
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Perhaps I should get some windows from a junkyard and build my own. 🙂
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Beautiful. We had a good crop of tomatoes this year. Sadly, it’s time to till the garden in preparation for winter.
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I should figure out the tilling. I don’t know anything about that.
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beautiful. i grew my first tomatoes this year and even though there were only a few, i was so excited. hmmm….the turkey –
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It is fun growing one’s own.
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Any chance you can get to eat the turkey? ; )
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LOL Somehow I don’t see myself trapping one. I doubt I could even carry it.
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Beautiful…..the natural beauty of the soil and Mother Nature:)x
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I love growing things.
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Me to:)
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The dry weather hurt mine this year. Even though I watered them, they like rain water better. Hopefully winter flies by like this whole year has and we can all regroup and plant new maters.
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Yes, perhaps you’re right. Maybe it was the long dry periods.
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How lovely:) And…delicious. ❤
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Thanks! It was more pretty than productive this year. Oh, well. There’s always next year. 🙂
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I had so many rogue plants in my garden this year and was quite surprised that the tomatoes had multiplied on their own.
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What luck! I baby my tomatoes, but even that didn’t help much this year. I need a big fence! LOL
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Those are some tasty looking tomatoes… Real rather than grown in a hot house
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It was fun having a garden, if for no reason except getting to see the turkeys drop by and help themselves. 🙂
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Straight from the garden is the most wonderful flavour; “no cellophane or styrofoam.” Beautiful photo of your tomatoes. Looks like you had a great harvest.
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Well, I got a few. Whatever the turkeys didn’t devour.
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The turkeys are pretty cool. Too bad they ate the feast.
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At least I got some tomatoes. Not like previous years, though.
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Lovely words and so awesome that you grow tomatoes, wow turkeys that is really neat except that they ate your garden 😦
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Yes, the birds are amazing. Glad they have repopulated the area, but they are worse than the bunnies! 🙂
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ha ha it is amazing to have all of that wild life! 🙂
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I’d rather have the tomatoes!
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ha ha ha yes I don’t blame you!! did you salvage anything from your garden?
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Not much! The herbs survived and a handful of tomatoes.
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wow not much but fresh herbs are wonderful!
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Yes, soup with fresh herbs can’t be beat.
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oh yes!
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