Thank you all for the advice. IÂve been thinking about what everyone said. I have to admit that the last couple of days IÂve gone through a roller coaster of emotions. I realized that in 13 years only one person in the family has ever shared something from their backyard with us. DonÂt get me wrong, the family is very kind in many other ways but maybe they just donÂt realize what goes into growing your own vegetables. DH and I have decided to be honest. This year is a bit different. We got started late, grew fewer plants, and got hit with disease early, so I donÂt even know what kind of crop we will get. So we will share but only what we can. Our little ones come first; after all they are working very hard in the garden this year! DH built the raised beds and did the entire heavy moving etc, I tend to the plants - so the garden belongs to all of us. As a family we share, we have always shared, that is us. I realized that in all the years that we have always been the ones that give, and I think that will always stay the same. I want to share and I want my children to learn that too. ItÂs not just the family; we try to give to others too. In the past I have offered to teach the family how to plant, there was even a year that my little ones started so many tomato seeds that we had 150 plants and we offered them to every person we knew. But I finally realize that not everyone wants to be a gardner :o I posted the question because I knew that the people in the forums would understand, because you all know what it takes and how much work it can be sometimes. You also know how rewarding it is to share growing with the little ones, picking the ripe veges, and giving to others. I wanted to hear that it was okay to feel the way that I was feeling. How can I expect them to understand, when they have never had a garden of their own? This year theyÂll get fewer tomatoes and they will also get to hear about all the work and problems and diseases encounteredÂ.. in detail! Just kidding! Thank you for all the advice and the great laughs!

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I do not think that "Dear Abbey" has to make up stuff. I believe that she recieves more letters on a daily basis than she ever replies to. Her file cabinet must be stuffed with material. Therefore, on a slow day, she could dive into the files to find a subject, and then highly fictionalize it. Is all that stuff true? Who knows? However, some of the subjects are so dim witted that I suspect these submissions are made up and sent in as a lark, or maybe as a heavily disguised tale about a real event and the submitter wishes to find advice without revealing too much about themself.

That particular tomato has what is called catfacing. Not a disease. Instead, the fruit was set while temps were relatively low. Yellow leaves are often due to one or more of the following: - too little fertilizer; - too little water OR too much - have gone dry one or more times. So, please tell us what you have done and/or are doing. And also post 2 pictures: - one of the ENTIRE plant - at least one image of an individual damaged leaf