Keeping an eye on mama’s tomatoes!
1. The summer is just about over and I have yet to ___help mama’s tomatoes to ripen. But she planted too late for summer fruits.
2. The highlight of my summer was __lying around in this incredible weather and fertilizing the garden for mama.
3. Mama says that Paola in Donna Leon’s novels__ is a fictional character I she really relates to. Loves to cook and is a bit saucy at times, haha. Now mama will take over:
4. My interest in __gardening began when __I visited my grandfather’s small farm as a child. We ate the most amazing vegetables and fruits and he churned sweet butter from heavy cream and made cottage cheese and my grandmother made lovely dishes from their produce.
Over half a kilo tomato from our guru next door…
Growing up on a farm, or being able to visit one as a child, must be a fabulous thing. The fresh food would be delightful.
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It really was, mama says, except for falling off the horse as a child and then not being okay with horses after that! But there was a brahma bull, too, a white one named RED, haha.
That’s one big tomato!
Over half a kilo and boy was it tasty!
Love the photo of you in the planter Loulou…..good observation post! That tomato is a “whopper”…..
Hugs, Teddy
Fed four plates of pasta! Mama’s are getting bigger but not like that one.
That is such a wonderful photo of Loulou. How nice that your grandfather was able to feed you fresh from his garden and that you have carried on the tradition. XOCK, angels Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta & Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy, Sawyer, Kizmet, Audrey & Raleigh
Oui, mama was lucky to have had that experience. Would that everyone could eat fresh vegetables and healthy food. SO many starving in this strange unbalanced world.
Good fill-ins, Loulou and Mom! Gardening is a wonderful skill to have. We’re way past that possibility now but I wish we had done it when we were younger and healthier! How very nice to have a family garden tradition!
Hey, just plant a few moral-building radishes using a small bag of good soil. It will give your courage as they do mama every year. They will grow for any color thumbs.
I love this photo of you Binky. That is a big tomato. Thank you for participating in the fill-ins, great answers. Your mama’s grandfather’s farm sounds wonderful. XO
Wait a minute…Binky? Well, I am honored to be Binky as that was one fantastic cat! Love from us. Mama called me Stella or Luna or Sushi sometimes….other kitties of hers.
We don’t garden much but we have fond memories of gardens from our childhood…and one of my friend’s parents kept a Jersey cow and we churned butter (in those glass jars with paddles). We would do that and then sit down with a loaf of bread and demolish it all.
OH, wonders. Yes, churning butter is really FUN and so amazing. You can do it now with heavy cream and shaking it in a jar, if you have the patience.
dee mum always loved dee smell of ripe tomatoez on dee vine
ooohhhh…my mum, too, luvs de smell of dose.
Those were good answers and that’s some nice tomato!
That little baby made sauce for 4 dishes of penne!!!!
What a whopping big “mater” LouLou. It appears you are busy with helping your momma with the garden and the fertilizer. Here the deer and rabbits fertilize like crazy, mol. Precious
Oh, that is precious, Precious! Free fertilizer every day. Just plant some lettuce or something in a little garden just for them and put a fence around yours!