Hi River!

Isn't it fun to eat food you raised yourself? I just love eating food from the garden all summer long....and even in the winter if I have been successful in canning, freezing and otherwise "putting food by" for winter. (I store onions in my tornado shelter and often have them for months and months.)

You are NOT the only one who hasn't had a ripe tomato yet, and a lot of it is due to the weather. Tomatoes just won't ripen easily without more heat and more sunshine than what they have been getting this year. Lately we are seeing a little more sunshine in our part of the state, and I can already see the results in a heavier tomato and pepper harvest.

Hoping your get a ripe tomato soon!

Dawn

My dad has been giving us tomatoes he grew in the greenhouse. DH has tomatoes in our garden, but they are still green. Plants look pretty good if you don't count the weeds sprouting all around them. LOL!

I posted in another thread that we picked enough green beans to can five pints. I offered to sharecrop with a friend of ours, though. He has beans but doesn't know how to use his canner. I told him I'd do it in exchange for some of the finished product. :)

Dawn, it's an awfully fine line we walk in growing tomatoes. Too much heat for too long can inhibit production of tomatoes just as too rainy, cool weather can as well. So, what's a gardener to do?

Mine are just growing like crazy right now, despite all the rain. I have, however, covered the ground around them with several layers of newspapers - don't know that it makes a difference or not, but this was a new area I cleared of crabgrass and bermuda, just for the maters. So, the newspaper is keeping the weeds at bay.

My Mexican Flame Vine is finally starting to grow, too, in leaps and bounds. Can't wait till it blooms!

Susan