After having work down on our front and back landscaping here for the last two months- those rocks look pretty cool! What a great MD idea. I asked DH if we could NOT go out to do something and just stay home instead and enjoy our gardens at home instead. We have lots of roses and other plants too in pots we can plant up that weekend. He made me a MD tea party (cooked all the food and set it up himself) one year and we'll do that again as we all enjoyed it so much. we're a tea party family! Here are some pics of our recent landscaping projects on my Picture Trail. The gazebo in our front yard was our Valentine's Day Wedding anniversary gift to each other. I think the new front yard and back patio are our Mother's Day and Father's Day gifts -for a few years! careytearose Here is a link that might be useful: check out the Landscaping Projects 2007 album

MsFuzz, I only saved seed from my grandmother's tomato at first, and for many years. Large Red Cherry must have been in my garden for 10 years before I realized that it was an heirloom and I could save seed. In fact, it was the great Ben Quisenberry who saved LRC, I guess. He is the same person we have to thank for the Brandywine. There may not be a whole, heckuva lot of open-pollinated varieties I can grow. I almost need those thrive-on-abuse, lightening-quick hybrids but . . . not really. I don't think I've got a cross-bred EG. I don't think it is a mutant. I think (not sure) that I've got EG's mother. If the worker didn't remove the stamens from a flower on a plant that he/she was pollinating for a hybrid, that flower would probably self-pollinate. That's what tomatoes do. So, all the genetic material in the seeds from the fruit of that flower would be from the mother plant. How would they know that one of the fruits didn't have hybrid seeds inside? If the mother was a hybrid, I may be outta-luck using the mystery plant's seed but, I looked at information on tomato hybridizing (linked below). They say that, "Both parents should be pure, preferably being selfpollinated for more than six generations . . ." So, it sounds as tho' this should just be a normal non-hybrid plant. If there is something special about it, the earliness of fruit development might be it. I know that it ain't got no resistance to flea beetles!! (Now watch the plant patent police show up in my garden to seize the mystery plant! If I fall silent about this subject, you know that a judge has issued a gag order . . ! ;o) Steve it would probably take a gag order to shut me up about most anything . . . Here is a link that might be useful: AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, 8 page pdf

Oh come, you just wanted so show your maters, lol. Seriously everything looks good to me as well. Leaves can do the curl thing when loaded with fruit like yours. Is your name there bumpr, short for "bumper", as in bumper crop? Looks like you got yourself a nice one there. Damon

Stacy, Glad you're feeling better each day. Just take care of yourself and don't think because you feel better that you're back to normal.......cuz your body WILL get even with you and remind you who is boss!! Walk but keep the distance close to home..........I walked 6 blocks to the park with my daughter and she had to go get the car to come pick me up I just didn't have the energy to get back home. Take care of you for all of us!! I suggest lots of computer time..........I know some games that will keep you busy for a few hours. Diane