Should I Take The Tomatoes ?

**Logan** · 08-21-2006, 02:03 PM

Take the darned tomatoes so they won't go to waste!!!!

**kuhio98** · 08-21-2006, 02:06 PM

Yep ~ Take those tomatoes and enjoy them. Might also consider watering the plant if it hasn't rained recently. Who knows? The house could still be empty next year and you'll get another crop of tomatoes.

**Maya & Inka's mommy** · 08-21-2006, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by kuhio98

The house could still be empty next year and you'll get another crop of tomatoes.

yeah, put up a sign with "haunted house", he he

**lizbud** · 08-21-2006, 04:37 PM

LOL I felt so funny asking this question, but I would be mortified if
someone came along and caught me picking them.

Well, I did muster
up the courage to take a few this afternoon.They look delicious.I kept
thinking that they would just go to waste.

I was wondering later how
they would do so well with no one around to tend them.

**momoffuzzyfaces** · 08-21-2006, 04:41 PM

If the house has a for sale sign on it, you could call the realtor and ask if they thought the owner would mind.

With my luck, right when I was snitching them, the realtor would come to show the house!

Those are what Dad called Volunteer tomatoes. They just come up on their own. Maybe there was a garden there at one time or someone chucked a tomato there and the plants came up on their own.

**moosmom** · 08-21-2006, 04:46 PM

I hardly doubt that caring for the garden by picking the ripe ones so the not so ripe ones CAN ripen qualifies for a WANTED poster in the Post Office. Go for it, girl!!! Enjoy every last, tantalizing bite!!

I LOVE native tomatoes.

Guess what my favorite sandwich is??? Native tomato and vadalia onion sandwich with lettuce, mayo, salt and pepper.

Good thing I sleep alone!

**K9karen** · 08-25-2006, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by moosmom

I hardly doubt that caring for the garden by picking the ripe ones so the not so ripe ones CAN ripen qualifies for a WANTED poster in the Post Office. Go for it, girl!!! Enjoy every last, tantalizing bite!!

I LOVE native tomatoes.

Guess what my favorite sandwich is??? Native tomato and vadalia onion sandwich with lettuce, mayo, salt and pepper.

Good thing I sleep alone!

YUM YUM! I'm with ya on that sandwich, Donna!!!!

Sale sign? Empty house? Oh Liz, grab that wicker basket and head on over and grab those suckers before they go to waste! I can make a meal out of home grown tomatoes!

**lizbud** · 08-21-2006, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by momoffuzzyfaces

If the house has a for sale sign on it, you could call the realitor and ask if they thought the owner would mind.

I did know the guy who lived there before, but don't know how to contact
him. I think he moved back to Kentucky.I know he wouldn't mind.But having
to explain all that to someone else with an armload of tomatoes might be
just too hard to do.

**moosmom** · 08-21-2006, 04:49 PM

How do you know the other neighbors aren't helping themselves???

**Dorothy39** · 08-21-2006, 04:51 PM

Oh My Lord, I'm laughing about this thread Lizbud. I'd love to see you , tippy toeing over to the tomatoe vine,( cautiously looking both ways)

then, slithering away with your find!!!

What a light hearted thread!!!!

**sandragonfly** · 08-23-2006, 02:13 AM

quote by lizbud
LOL I felt so funny asking this question, but I would be mortified if someone came along and caught me picking them.

..

say, "uh-oh! (act innoncently) um .. have you heard of a book named little red hen??" and

..

**gini** · 08-23-2006, 09:59 AM

I'm still stuck on the idea of a picture of Lizbud in the post office!!

Enjoy those tomatos!!!

**lizbud** · 08-23-2006, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by gini

I'm still stuck on the idea of a picture of Lizbud in the post office!!

Enjoy those tomatos!!!

LOL

My children would disown me and my family would never let me forget it.

I tried creeping over again today to see if I missed anymore ripe ones, but
turned around & walked back when the neighbor's Shin Tzus started barking
their little heads off.

I'm a lousy thief.