I just had a bagel with cream cheese and one of my cheat tomatoes. It was really good. You know how everything is “gluten free” these days that has always been “gluten free”? Gluten FREE! is screamed from so many products these days I just ignore it. Then I bought some bagel thins in the healthy section of Kroger and when I got home I noticed they were gluten free. Well, crap. Bagel need to have gluten they are bagels. So I knew I had wasted my money. I tried them anyway and they are really good. They are made with sprouted wheat and chia seeds. So I will be buying them on purpose time. I mention all of this because it’s almost BLT season and for those of us who live alone, that brings with it The Bread Crisis. If you buy a loaf of bread, it goes bad before you use it all. If you buy individual buns one or two at a time, you run out before the next grocery store trip. If you freeze a loaf of bread they stick together and get freezer frost. This packet of six bagel thins are just right for me.
I’m also talking about good things because THE CRAZY is back. I haven’t been taking my supplements regularly. I have been drinking the sanity water. I’ve been drinking wine. I have not been eating properly. I have been down with some sort of allergies or something for days. Which led to me getting up to toast a bagel and feeling like I was going to do the ugly cry and/or have a panic attack.
So I need to take my own damn advice and do some tomato therapy. Even if today it is just, eat the tomato.
I did finally get some baking soda to spray on my poor cheat plant that has more tomatoes than leaves these days. And I did put some in the watering can try to make the fungus less happy to be there. I haven’t done a lot of watering because of THE CRAZY and not feeling well in general. The tomatoes themselves are doing well. My mystery tomato plant that I thought was yellow pear once home noticed it was label as a yellow brandywine, looks to me like it really is going to be yellow pear. It is struggling with the damn fungus as well though.
Oh I also had home grown lettuce on my bagel. It’s quite tasty! I do hate washing the leaves though.
So there is my gardening confessional this week. I haven’t done a lot, but I am going to try to do better.
What’s happening in your garden?
Well I don’t have a garden, cause I kill everything BUT, last mother’s day, I got a plant I assumed I’d kill quickly. Well, today I got a really pretty purple planter for my plant which is like huge and alive, one year later!!! Problem is, I am so scared to replant it, cause I’m so scared of killing it. I got potting soil also, so I guess I just need some nerve before I kill my plant from it having no more room to grow. Any thoughts I’d appreciate, like a lot!!
Happy Mothers Day to all with human and or fur babies.
I was sitting in the garden with a spritzer and noticed one of the blueberries turned blue. My first blueberry out of the garden. It was delicious
Wow. Our tomatoes don’t go in until after Memorial Day.
Just planted lettuce yesterday in the pouring rain, but it is done, now I have to hope the birds don’t shit on it. Sorry about THE CRAZY, went through it with my sister today, but thankfully it turned out well, thanks to the marvels of pharmacology .
My Sungold appears to have scoliosis. Not sure why and yet I’m kind of pleased. Every time I plant the runt of the litter or the fragile looking plant, they turn out the best fruit or veggie. Hopefully that comes true with this plant.
So sorry to hear about The Crazy TT!! I feel you and will NOT throw out my half loaf of thin sliced bread even though it is weeks old. It’s time to make friends with freezing half loaves.
Found a nice person who had organic strawberry starts for sale; I’m going to spend more energy on those 8 plants this year than the tomatoes.
Planted another batch of mixed lettuces as well as some sweet corn which I hope the squirrels don’t help themselves to. Am really putting effort into the fancy exhibition chrysanthemums I carried over the winter in the garage and the ten new ones that came last week. These bloom right at or after our first killing frosts so it gets pretty busy covering them as needed in the fall. But they are GORGEOUS!! Spiders, quills, thistles, incurves, oh my!
I buy bread buy the loaf, and I keep it in the fridge. I’ve never had a problem; it doesn’t get moldy that way. IJS.
Also, I’ll freeze loaves too, because I usually wait to buy until they’re BOGO. If you put the wrapped loaf inside a freezer bag, and not just in the store wrapping, you shouldn’t have a problem with freezerburn. I don’t!
I buy bread by the loaf and freeze it. I usually buy whole uncut loaves of ciabatta, cut the slices in the thickness I want and then wrap each serving in wax paper. The wax paper keeps the servings from sticking together when frozen. Then I put the wax paper wrapped servings together in gallon size freezer bags and store in the freezer. When I need bread, I just remove a frozen serving and pop it in the microwave still in the wax paper. Zapping the bread for 15 seconds (more or less depending on thickness of the bread and power of your microwave) on each side gives me fresh warm bread.
Son and DIL came over today and gave me a cucumber from Son’s step-dad’s garden. It was perfect, I chopped with a small Vidalia and some apple cider vinegar. Nom. Going to try a small container garden this year,
TT – what was the brand of those bagel thins? Doc says I have gluten sensitivity…..
https://odoughs.com/products/
Here;s a link. It looks like they make lots of kinds. Mine were the sprouted Flax ones. My only complaint about this product is that the bagel thins are cut unevenly. One side is twice as thick as the other which makes toasting more difficult. I think toasting is the key to these tasting good. I didn’t feel like waiting on the broiler to finish toasting the other day and they are kind of gummy if not toasted.
My tomato plant is doing well but also showing some signs of fungus. I have a half dozen or so tomatoes, but none are red yet. I need to get the bird cloth for that and my fig before the birds take everything.
I thought of you today when I discovered that my parsley is thriving. I recall there being some negative connotation with that but oh well. I seem to be a pretty good herb grower, as the catnip, rosemary, and oregano is also doing well. I also planted thyme, marjoram, and basil, and am going to make another run at growing lavender, although I have never been successful with it.
My oleanders have got a fungus, though, so I need to get on top of that before it destroys all of them. I ran out of time today, so they will have to suffer through a bit longer. So I guess my gardening is a bit of a mixed bag this weekend.
Thanks for the tomato post! I have been hoping for one all week. Take care, Tamara.
Since I’ve been up here in SC, I have killed every outdoor plant I have tried to grow, including mint. Mint is almost impossible to kill. I don’t know what’s up but I sure miss my tomatoes and cucumbers. I’ll have to rely on other folks gardens, I guess, and raid my mama’s when I come down to visit!!
My gardens are in raised beds and pots all over the place. There are 38 pots on my back deck/lanai/verandah alone.
Because, for me, THE CRAZY, is stifled by fresh food. So, herbs, tomatoes, peas and etc abound.
Instead of flowers, husband got me a blueberry plant from the hardware store for Mothers Day. With berries on it. Because he wants the crazies to stay away too.
Today: eat the tomato, slice the onions and fry them, whatever is one step to peace.
TT, I know you hate when we get sappy, but I’ve been wanting to tell you how proud I am of you for weathering the storms of the last year. I don’t say much but I still faithfully follow you…as do many others. You’ve stayed the course and we’re proud of you. ❤️
Thanks, Lovie.
I decided to plant different veggies this year in my garden. I usually go for the tomato, cucumber, sweet peppers but have planted beets, green onion, ghost peppers, bok choy and numerous types of lettuce. It’s early days for growing up here in Canada so they are all just little sprouts right now.
I also tried growing flowers from seed this year to be cheap. I usually buy flats from my kids school fundraiser but last year I bought $150 worth of flowers and then we had a frost and they all died. I’m still bitter about that. So I found these bee and hummingbird mixes and it seemed like a good idea at the time but I’m starting to get sick of staring at dirt.
If you buy some dirt, it’s more fun to look at it. Because it’s imported. I am not making this up.
Anything is better than the current “soil” I purchased. It’s basically black sawdust. I like soil that has those little white specks in it. What are they anyways? Fertilizer? Styrofoam?
I think it is styrofoam. I hate that stuff. I like new out of the bag black dirt. I wish it would stay that way. I buy that nature’s own “organic dirt” even though dirt is by nature organic lol. I just assume that means they didn’t add any crap to it.
Perlite.
This morning before my first cup of coffee, I went for it, and replanted my plant. Then I saw the white stuff post, which my potting soil has. I just looked and be anything i can’t pronounce. But, if in Georgia, certain % were different. Found odd.
Went for my annual lantana-rama purchase. There, amongst the urrrange was some white. My first thought was why white? Almost overlooked a gift from above. A reminder that angels come in every color and feeling that one recalled my love for them and sent a little something for the old white garden.
Chris (hubs) got me Miracle grow indoor with all kinds of “hope” ingredients so I don’t kill it. Since he gave it to me a year ago and I actually have kept it alive, he realizes what a big deal that is. If I can keep it alive after the pot transfer, this may be a thing for me to do. I have ledges and windows around my bathtub so plants would look cool. I don’t go outside, so maybe an indoor garden? Could be relaxing and take focus off anxiety, pain, etc. Hmm. Can vegetables be an indoor thing?