If it's not a po' boy is it a rich girl?
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Comments (45)I agree with the above. Plus the fact that too much personal information gets divulged or can be mined by joining facebook. I'd rather limit my online participation to forums like GW and other, less inclusive, less wide open sites. I've been a member here for a long time....going on a couple of decades......and I have seen the same ebb and flow of visitor traffic through the seasons as we are now witnessing. January, February, March are always as slow as molasses but it will pick up when the gardening season comes into to full force in the next 6-8 weeks. And I have to say that the comments about excessive ads and pop-ups surprises me. I don't experience hardly any at all and just use Explorer with the standard firewalls. Didn't realize this was much of a problem anymore regardless of the Internet server one used...... I have to be honest when I say I read more than post. Most of the topics don't hold a great deal of interest for me and I tend only to respond to questions that get neglected or overlooked or when erroneous info is provided. Since conifers are not my area of concentrated expertise, I let others respond first - there is an amazing knowledge base here :-) But I still remain pretty active in some other forums. I also live in an area where the Internet is not widely available so I am not online at home. And since my work life is pretty seasonal and therefore computer access the same, I tend not to post much in winter anyway....See Moreram a po - ram a po - ram a po
Comments (9)Ramapo is a commercial tomato variety from the...I don't know, 1960s or 1970s. Originally grown by commercial growers in New Jersey and sold at markets there and in New York and surrounding areas, Ramapo is one of the outstanding varieties adored by many people who referred to these old, flavorful hybrid as "the Jersey tomato", and the "Jersey tomato" was famous pretty much worldwide for its' great flavor. Because these tomatoes had outstanding flavor, eventually the seeds were sold to home gardeners who were often very, very fond of them too. In fact, when production of Ramapo F-1 hyrbid seed was dropped, some home gardeners began saving their Ramapo seed and doing successive grow-outs in the hope they could dehybridize it, stabilize it and keep it going on their own without the commercial seed producers. Some of them did succeed so, in the seed-saver world, there are seeds of the dehybridized Ramapo. Because the Jersey tomatoes as a group were not very good shippers, those varieties were dumped in flavor of newer hybrids that could be picked green and reddened artificially (NOT actually ripening, which is why grocery store tomatoes lack flavor), had a long shelf life and had thick, tough skin and could be shipped long distances. These new tomatoes had everything but flavor, so..... For a couple of decades, people who like tomatoes have been asking "whatever happened to the Jersey tomato" because the tomatoes nowadays have all those great shipping qualities and poor flavor. Finally, Rutgers University and the New Jersey Agriculture Experiment Station decided to give consumers what they want and they are doing their best to bring back tomatoes that have actual flavor. Ramapo F-1 Hybrid was the first variety they "revived" and it reappeared last year, but was (and is) available only through Rutgers/NJAES. I was so excited I immediately bought a couple of packs of seed. This year, their second "revived" variety is Moreton F-1 Hybrid, and it is available through Harris Seed. I am growing it as well. I love heirlooms and I'll always grow them, but I like growing good-flavored (and there are a few of them) hybrids because of their higher productivity and disease-resistance. For me, Ramapo had excellent flavor and production and it produced tomatoes well into August (actually, it produced into October or November without skipping a beat) even though our drought conditions here were horrid and I wasn't watering the garden.....it was all I could do to water the area around the house to keep the clay from shifting and the foundation from cracking. So, with Rampao F-1 and Moreton F-1 back on the market, market growers and small farmers, and home gardeners as well, now have access to two outstanding hybrid varieties with that good old "Jersey tomato" flavor. The commercial world of plant breeders and seed producers have finally, finally, finally realized that folks don't just want a bland, flavorless, poor-textured, thick-skinned tomatoey-looking thing that ships well and has a long shelf life.....we want real tomatoes that TASTE like tomatoes. It is about time. I give Rutgers/NJAES all the credit in the world for spearheading the movement to give us tomatoes with flavor. Burpee deserves some credit, too, because it was their Brandy Boy which proved you COULD breed hybrids with high productivity/disease-resistance AND the heirloom-type flavor many consumers prefer. Because Brandy Boy was an immediate best-seller and has been enormously profitable for Burpee, other breeders are now trying to give us that excellent flavor in tomatoes again, and it is about time. And, by the way, Harris Seeds has some of the best hybrids on the market and some of those have wonderful flavor too--Primetime, Supersonic, Jetstar, Moreton, etc. I suspect Harris-Moran never did stop breeding for flavor. That's probably more than you wanted to know about Ramapo, but I thought I'd tell the story of its revival to illustrate how breeders are finally trying to give us hybrids with good flavor and texture again. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Rutgers/NJAES Tomato Info...See MoreHystericaly Funny-But-Wise Boyfriend Advice for Girls of All Ages
Comments (16)Not offensive to me at all. I giggled and will pass it on! Thanks Lynn. Oh, and the only reason I didn't respond when I first read it was that I was on a different computer, would have had to sign in, and was just too darn lazy to do so! ;)...See MoreWanting a baby girl so bad it hurts--advice?
Comments (46)I can understand what you mean....I found this site due to having grown sons who have very little interest in having a mother at their age... I have never been clingy, dependent or whiny with them...but I am afraid this can be a norm....I believe that the old saying is true about losing sons when they marry...their wife will either like you or not...most likely not...and then you are empty...but you must know this already... Your best efforts are pointless in trying to get a son to have any concern for your well being as you age...if their wife wants him to,,he might... I would not chance another son at this point...it will put you in an emotional meat grinder....your sons who you need to nurture needs you....it is not their fault that genders do this to people...do your best and you may have an exception to the rule.... But please do this....seek something for yourself...a job or volunteer work...do not give all of you to your spouse and children...not the part of you that will need to move on when they grow up...that is the tricky part of motherhood.. To date...no ability to choose gender exists for pepple of normal means...perhaps for the rich? Not sure....but buy a female puppy...and just raise your sons...they may one day give you a grandaughter...See Morebbstx
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