Tomatoes!!

[teb]

I never flew any corn..........

[kiramdear]

Careful, now, guys ...

[doctorwho]

I'll have some tomatoes this year if I don't keep water-starving the poor plants ...

[octagon]

[jimk]

Oh........Kaaaaaaayyyyyyyy
JimK

[cjj]

What a great thread !!!

Yeah, whoddathunkit? Wonder what sort of responses there'd be to a thread all about the summer pleasures of sweet corn?
JimK

Just don't bring up zucchini...

[teb]

I did make a kite once that was a giant carrot. It was about twelve feet long and had rather strange flying characteristics. It would take off, scream skyward and then slam into the ground (come to think of it, I've known a few balloon pilots who flew like that, too). That was the end of my aero-vegetable period. These days, my wife is in charge of the tomatoes and I only fly in the living room.

[wints]

Cool thread!

Those tom's look yum, especially the sun dried variety...

[cjj]

I never flew any corn..........

Well, you weren't too far away, you could have gone over to Orville's place and tried this one out...

Back to tomatoes, they're finally starting to get ripe in reasonable numbers. More BLT's for lunch today!

The corn is a few weeks out yet...

[ajish4]

Ain't nothin' in the world that I like better
Than bacon & lettuce & homegrown tomatoes
Up in the mornin' out in the garden
Get you a ripe one don't get a hard one
Plant `em in the spring eat `em in the summer
All winter with out `em's a culinary bummer
I forget all about the sweatin' & diggin'
Everytime I go out & pick me a big one

Chorus:
Homegrown tomatoes homegrown tomatoes
What'd life be without homegrown tomatoes
Only two things that money can't buy
That's true love & homegrown tomatoes

You can go out to eat & that's for sure
But it's nothin' a homegrown tomato won't cure
Put `em in a salad, put `em in a stew
You can make your very own tomato juice
Eat `em with egss, eat `em with gravy
Eat `em with beans, pinto or navy
Put `em on the site put `em in the middle
Put a homegrown tomato on a hotcake griddle

If I's to change this life I lead
I'd be Johnny Tomato Seed
`Cause I know what this country needs
Homegrown tomatoes in every yard you see
When I die don't bury me
In a box in a cemetary
Out in the garden would be much better
I could be pushin' up homegrown tomatoes

And boy, have we got 'em this year! Just had me a big ol' BLT sandwich for lunch, and I'm singing this song.
JimK

Man, what a thread! LOL....

But I THOUGHT John Denver wrote this! I have it around here somewhere.

[jimk]

I wouldn't be surprised if Henry J. Deutschendorf Jr. (alias John Denver) had recorded it. But nope, it was written by Guy Clark.
JimK

[whojamfan]

I did make a kite once that was a giant carrot. It was about twelve feet long and had rather strange flying characteristics. It would take off, scream skyward and then slam into the ground (come to think of it, I've known a few balloon pilots who flew like that, too). That was the end of my aero-vegetable period. These days, my wife is in charge of the tomatoes and I only fly in the living room.

Wow, those are some really nice tomatoes there,(and mean that in the literal sense.) I've mainly only seen the regular round red ones, not those kind, and am getting a hankering for a blt myself

I think those ballon payments got so high that the whole deal came spiralling down-haha. That must have been some exciting work going up in those! Personally, I'd be having a coronary about 5 feet up. It's not heights that I'm afraid of, it's landing