Thursday #204 - Makin' a Virtual Garden

[Cinder & Smoke]

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]

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

Logan

[Blue_Frog]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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!

[gini]

Poor Mario - he thought the little red tomatoes were cherries...........imagine his surprise when he popped them into his mouth. Now he has one in each nostril - ah, what a guy!!

[Cinder & Smoke]

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]

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

[Killearn Kitties]

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.

[Maresche]

Don't forget the mint for mint juleps and iced tea.

Be sure to put in a container of some kind, because otherwise it WILL take over.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I have some chocolate mint growing (right next to the catnip... )....it will go well with the chocolate martinis!

ANd yes...I grow my mint, catnip...anything in that family...in containers!

[RedHedd]

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

I think we're going to need a weed whacker to cut down all this foliage! Yikes! Someone must have turned on the grow lights!

I'll take a nice cold ice tea with some of those pansy cubes floating around. They look SO pretty!

[Maresche]

ANd yes...I grow my mint, catnip...anything in that family...in containers!

I didn't when I initially planted it 7 years ago. I ripped it out 4 years ago and am still finding sprigs that pop up in that bed every so often. Now if I could only get my chives to spread like that.