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|    T to songbird    |
|    Re: tomato harvest coming in    |
|    11 Sep 22 23:53:50    |
      From: T@invalid.invalid              On 8/27/22 09:06, songbird wrote:       > went out yesterday morning expecting to pick 6-8 buckets of       > tomatoes and ended up picking between 11-13 buckets instead.              I might be a bit envious. Maybe. I ain't saying.              Did you ever bet over your tomato allergy?                     > which meant for a busy day of tomato canning. i'm happy for       > it though as we really enjoy having our own grown and canned       > tomatoes.       >       > some of the tomatoes were "brain" shaped. very irregular       > surface and a lot of inclusions. i suspect this is from very       > hot weather we had during pollination, but i don't know for       > sure.       >       > another issue was that there was some animal that had chewed       > on many fruits (probably raccoons). i picked everything that       > was ripe enough so i can finish up getting things canned for       > us. don't know how many more will be damaged. i did hear       > noises from the garden late last night. the garden is fenced       > but there is no certain way to keep raccoons out with the kind       > of fence we currently have and i don't have any funds at the       > moment for replacing any of that anyways. an eventual goal       > of mine will be to upgrade some fences and to add more but       > that won't be happening anytime soon.       >       >       > songbird              An electric fence perpahs?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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