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    I have a idea! Let's plant pansies.....then after while....when it is time to replace them....we can freeze them in ice cubes and have them in our drinks this summer!

    Cassiesmom...I had some geraniums for years in Chicago. Every fall I would cut them way back, cover the pot and put it in the basement AWAY from the furnace. Set them back in a sunny window about this time of year. By May they were gorgeous!

    So a martini with a pansy ice cube floating...oh what to call it!

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    Plants start crying and run from the room if they see me comining. I am only allowed to take their pictures not care for them.

    You may want a few tomato plants!!! Vine ripened tomatoes are the best!!!
    No matter what anyone does, someone some where will be offended some how!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by momoffuzzyfaces

    You may want a few tomato plants!!! Vine ripened tomatoes are the best!!!

    Planning Bloody Marys with homemade tomato juice! What a great idea MOFF!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
    Planning Bloody Marys with homemade tomato juice! What a great idea MOFF!
    Glad I could help!!!

    Oh, and some lime trees to go with the lemon ones: for lemonade and limeades, of course!!!

    OH, Mario wants a cherry tree too!!!
    No matter what anyone does, someone some where will be offended some how!!!!
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    Certainly planting catnip, but far away from anything more delicate ... The ground up here is still well snow-covered except for the two spots in the front that get the sun, flowers being a far-away concept at this point!

    But certainly next fall we'll plant a mess of daffodils. There's nothing that says "spring" like teh smell o' daffidowndillies! And lilac bushes for May ...

    And fruit trees and plants ...

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    Daffodils are the BEST, aren't they, Karen? Ours have already come and gone. I guess being in the south has its advantages. It is spring, and we're loving it!!!!

    Logan

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    Quote Originally Posted by momoffuzzyfaces


    You may want a few tomato plants!!!
    Vine ripened tomatoes are the best!!!

    Yup ...

    Till your Durn Dawgs decide THEY like the taste of fresh, home-grown, 'Matoes!

    /s/ Cinder, Smokey & Heidi

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    Lilly was a master at picking tomatoes. I wish she was still right here to "pick" to her heart's content.

    Logan

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    Quote Originally Posted by Logan
    Lilly was a master at picking tomatoes. I wish she was still right here to "pick" to her heart's content.

    Logan
    My old dog Holly used to eat veggies from the garden too -- she was really gentle about it and would pick raspberries off the bushes without damaging them, pick and eat the beans without breaking the stems -- quality dog she was
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    That's exactly how Lilly was, Blue Frog. She was ever so gentle in her "picking", but we still hated it when she picked our neighbor's tomatoes, when we weren't looking! I think our neighbor and our family would rather have her picking tomatoes to her heart's content, than have her gone.

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    yea - i know what you mean - Holly passed away about 6 years ago, but I still miss her. I'm sorry to hear about your Lilly
    Last edited by Blue_Frog; 03-22-2007 at 04:26 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Logan

    She was ever so gentle in her "picking" ...
    Oh, the Muttz were always ever so "gentle" when plucking 'Maters ...
    they just took ALL of 'em before I figured out who the 'Mater Thieves were!

    They started off grabbing a dozen "ripe for the picking" red ones the day before *I* was
    gonna get 'em ... and befor it was over - they'd grabbed the "almost red ones",
    the "still green" ones, the tiny "I think it's a 'mater" ones,
    and they had started snatching the FLOWERS off the bush!

    I need to string some barbed wire and get an electric fence charger.


    /s/ "Mater Man
    /s/ Cinder, Smokey & Heidi

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
    I have a idea! Let's plant pansies.....then after while....when it is time to replace them....we can freeze them in ice cubes and have them in our drinks this summer!

    Cassiesmom...I had some geraniums for years in Chicago. Every fall I would cut them way back, cover the pot and put it in the basement AWAY from the furnace. Set them back in a sunny window about this time of year. By May they were gorgeous!

    So a martini with a pansy ice cube floating...oh what to call it!
    Love that idea -- they'd look fancy in a big bowl of some kind of punch too

    Hmm... we need a lemon tree too for wedges, and maybe some beans we can pickle to add to Caesars ... hmmm lots of ideas


    / hands ES a fancy Martini a la Pansy Icecube
    / refilling scotch, its going to be a long day -again- at work.


    Edit: to fix some terrible bad spelling. Aparently "Huk'd on fonix werked fore me!" didn't really work...

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