Yeah, you don't really want this - it's not good for the environment in Tennessee. If you like the look of the tree, look into Catalpa as a substitute. Here is a link that might be useful:

All of you have been so kind - thank you from our family. My heart breaks for each of you that have lost a fur baby. Harley was such a part of all of us. When Gary was dying of pancreatic cancer, Harley would not leave his side - I had to drag him outdoors to take care of his business. He didn't eat for a week - just laid by our bedroom door and kept guard. Harley arrived in our lives on Christmas day, 1998, weighing 6 pounds - he grew to 75 pounds at one point, but as he aged, he dropped to 56 pounds. He was a big ball of fur and love!

I haven't seen any concentric cracking or radial cracking yet, but fully expect I'll see some soon. There's just been too much rainfall in a relatively short period of time for the tomatoes to not crack. I expect to see a lot of weather checking on the fruit as well. I haven't stepped foot in my garden in two days, so every tomato out there may be cracking at this point and maybe I just don't know it. With roughly 20" of rain in the last 30 days (and about 14.4" of that in May), the real shock is that the fruit's not cracking. After the rain stops falling this morning, I'll go out and see what I find. Brandywine is prone to crack pretty badly anyway, so I am not surprised that yours are cracking but I hate to hear that it is happening. I had a huge Brandywine harvest last year but don't think this year will be the same. I'll probably look back at the end of the year and regret that I "wasted" garden space on several Brandywine plants. Maybe we'll get lucky and summer will be drier than spring has been and our Brandywines will manage to set some fruit that won't crack. In an excessively wet and prolonged rainy period, it is hard to avoid some sort of cracking, though some varieties are more prone to it than others. You can do everything right in terms of what the tomatoes need, but then if Mother Nature decides to dump 6 or 8 or 12" on your garden in one day, there's nothing you can do about that, and we're all in the same boat this year. With concentric cracking, I leave those tomatoes on the plant until/if they start growing mold in the cracks. Often, with concentric cracking, the plants form scar tissue and heal over and the fruit can be harvested and eaten eventually. I don't know if that would happen with concentric cracking under the current conditions because there's not enough dry days for the skin to scar over and heal, and with rain falling several days a week, it seems more likely the cracks will just widen and then start growing mold. With radial cracking, my experience has been that the fruit won't heal at all and I might as well remove the fruit when I see the cracks. In an odd way, it is better to be perpetually wet in terms of cracking as opposed to swinging back and forth from dry to very wet to dry again, so what would help most would be some consistency. Often, tomato fruit crack as they near maturity and the epidermis loses its ability to expand rapidly, so heavy rain following prolonged dry weather can be harder on tomatoes than continually heavy rain, up to a point. With continually heavy rain, the tomato skin seems able to keep stretching more, more and more, until it just reaches a point, genetically, where it cannot do it any more. In the kind of weather we're seeing now, I don't know if there are any tomatoes that won't crack. Even varieties that are known to be fairly crack-resistant likely will crack over the next few weeks because there's just too much rain falling constantly. Brandywine is a heart-breaker, but it is worth the heartbreak to have a chance to eat a few Brandywines during the tomato season.

Dances, I don't know much about horses' teeth. I would imagine they started out a little out on align and got progressively worse over time. Perhaps he is missing a tooth or two and that caused them to grow all wonky. I will ask the vet. One of my FB friends bought a kill pen horse and his teeth are the same but much more so. I know she had the vet work on them twice (called floating) but I don't know how much it changed their appearance. He turned out to be a very well trained dressage horse and she is thrilled with him. Joyful, a horse doesn't have to see something in his feed bucket in order to not eat it. They can do things with their noses that we can't do with our hands. Shell used to make a wormer called Equiguard. It was little blue pellets that you put in horses' feed. The horse was supposed to eat them and they would pass through the horse and kill worms along the way...especially bots. My horses could eat the feed and leave all the little blue pellets still in the feed bucket. Jasdip, Val was probably sold due to his age and because old horses usually need extra care. I don't think the nose bleed thing was the cause. I hope not. I guess I will find out if it continues and I have to have him scoped.