Thursday #204 - Makin' a Virtual Garden

**Cinder & Smoke** · 03-22-2007, 02:02 PM

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!

**Logan** · 03-22-2007, 02:38 PM

Lilly was a master at picking tomatoes.

I wish she was still right here to "pick" to her heart's content.

Logan

**Blue_Frog** · 03-22-2007, 02:42 PM

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

**Logan** · 03-22-2007, 02:52 PM

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.

**Blue_Frog** · 03-22-2007, 03:07 PM

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

**Blue_Frog** · 03-22-2007, 04:12 PM

Ok, we've got ...

- Pansies for making icecubes
- Lemon and lime trees for garnishee's
- fresh tomaters for Caesars and Bloody Marys
- along with all the decorative variety of flowers to brighten up the patio

... and of course, since the 'bar and its not fair that only the people get a little tipsy, we've got some nice catnip for the kitties (as well as for making garnishes for anyone who wants to fend the cats off the drinks table).

* humming 'its an alcoholic garden' to the tune of the Beatles 'Octopuses Garden' *

**RedHedd** · 03-22-2007, 06:38 PM

Wow! Thursdays looks like a greenhouse with all these plants. I actually do have a green thumb and have a veritable jungle growing in my bedroom. I'm so proud that my orchid is putting out a bloom spike - although my luck with orchids is touch 'n go, but for the most part they do well under my care - I basically ignore them, except to water them once a week, feed them their "vitamins" according to the schedule on the bottle, sit everything in a sunny window and let them do their thing. They seem to thrive very well. Oh and the cats enjoy "gardening" too - I often catch them making sure the palms don't grow too tall

I'll have a freshly squeezed non-alcoholic BM for the road please. No, Mario, the celery is NOT a baton!

**Cinder & Smoke** · 03-22-2007, 07:06 PM

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

**gini** · 03-23-2007, 11:32 AM

Good morning everyone - ooops no one is here. Could they all be out picking tomatoes?

**Killearn Kitties** · 03-23-2007, 11:55 AM

I was finding it difficult to find the front door through all the greenery, Gini!

I think I will have an end of the week light, chilled kind of a drink with a pansy cube please. The girls will just have a roll in the catnip here.