First batch of tomatoes

[aceofspades7]

The tomatoes are finally coming in DC - we pick the bigger ones a little earlier because the deer and rabbits seem to know when they start ripening...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4785751541_2d26d3c936_b.jpg

[Dude!]

i'm surprised that bananas
grow so well in DC

i guess i shouldn't be

[Snoogans]

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[Chigworthy]

i'm surprised that bananas
grow so well in DC

i guess i shouldn't be

If you had said something like "Those tomatoes look strangely like bananas", you would have scored some points here.

[aceofspades7]

i love earl weaver!

[KnoxHarrington]

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Fucking classic.

I'd love to know the backstory of that clap. Damn, do I hope that actually aired and that wasn't just a joke tape they made that didn't air.

OK, I looked it up, and my illusions were shattered:

Marr said it was a prank. Marr and Weaver were pre-recording a segment from Seattle in 1982, when the pair flubbed a take of the Manager's Corner. They got to laughing and decided to record an entire fake segment and send it back to the station engineer as a joke.

The dialogue was all off-the-cuff and off-the-air. Weaver didn't have to try very hard to act like an old cuss. The engineer, of course, got a kick out of it, and the listeners heard a different, sanitized version of the segment before Sunday's ballgame.

[A.J.]

i'm surprised that bananas
grow so well in DC

i guess i shouldn't be

Yeah, DC is renowned for its agricultural products.

[aceofspades7]

just had one of the cherokee purple tomatoes on a sandwich - awesome!

[Dude!]

just had one of the cherokee purple tomatoes on a sandwich - awesome!

unless you live
in a nursing home
11:30 a.m. is way too early
for lunch

[aceofspades7]

i live in a nursing home...

actually i get to work at 6, so i'm starving by 11...

[Snoogans]

you should get this:

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[Rhah]

I know someone you can get to defend your tomato plants from deers and rabbits or even other undesirables moving to your neighborhood

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[disneyspy]

my hanging cherry tomato plants,i get about 5 cherry tomatos a day,planted in gallon milk jugs

http://i27.tinypic.com/2liztcl.jpg

[FUNKMAN]

almost as good as a jersey tomato, but really, what is the difference?

you say tomato, we say tomato... not the same affect when you write it

[Annie Waits]

my hanging cherry tomato plants,i get about 5 cherry tomatos a day,planted in gallon milk jugs

http://i27.tinypic.com/2liztcl.jpg


How many tomato plants do you have? I didn't think they could grow in just a milk jug?? aren't the roots looking for more space?

[StanUpshaw]

Those tomatoes look strangely like bananas.

[disneyspy]

How many tomato plants do you have? I didn't think they could grow in just a milk jug?? aren't the roots looking for more space?

theres 3 tomato plants in each jug,plus each has a strawberry plant,a bell pepper plant and a cucumber plant,i cut slits in two sides of the jugs and put plants in each. because the plants are fighting for root and sunshine space they grow like crazy and are putting out veggies at a fantastic rate now,i'm up to 7 cherry tomatos and a full tomato a day now plus a strawberry every other day,the cucumbers and pepper plants havent gotten big enough yet but they're loaded and in about a week i'll be picking them also

[Chigworthy]

theres 3 tomato plants in each jug,plus each has a strawberry plant,a bell pepper plant and a cucumber plant,i cut slits in two sides of the jugs and put plants in each. because the plants are fighting for root and sunshine space they grow like crazy and are putting out veggies at a fantastic rate now,i'm up to 7 cherry tomatos and a full tomato a day now plus a strawberry every other day,the cucumbers and pepper plants havent gotten big enough yet but they're loaded and in about a week i'll be picking them also

Post a detail pic of one of these jugs when you're done squirting a hose at the pesky neighborhood kids.

[Dude!]

Post a detail pic of one of these jugs when you're done squirting a hose at the pesky neighborhood kids.

better yet...
he should post
a detail pic
of his wife's jugs

[aceofspades7]

And here's my last batch of tomatoes - notice all the bhuts in the upper right. I'm clearing out the tomato plants tomorrow - they are done. It was a great season in DC.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj108/davidcgallo/SAM_0355.jpg

[disneyspy]

Post a detail pic of one of these jugs when you're done squirting a hose at the pesky neighborhood kids.
heres an up close on a bell pepper thats ripe
http://i33.tinypic.com/5jw9xe.jpg
strawberries
http://i36.tinypic.com/2wpqeyg.jpg
and now i cant keep up with the cherry tomatoes,they're still blooming
http://i37.tinypic.com/muexro.jpg

[aceofspades7]

here's the last pineapple tomato - it was awesome on bhut burgers

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