So this is a Tamara Tattles Public Service announcement. I am not sure I can recap RHOBH tonight. I’d like to be more present for it than I could be right now. It’s possible that I will rally. But if things continue to go as they have today, I won’t even be awake when the […]
Tomato Talk: It is Finish ED. (Open Forum)
I guess you have to have been raised in the church to get the title. Let me know if you do. 🙂 My garden sucked this year except for the orange pear tomatoes and the hot peppers. That’s because they were in pots with fresh dirt. My Norman Bates neighbor spent a lot of time […]
Tomato Talk: It’s Too Damn Hot For This!
I haven’t updated on the garden in a while because I’ve been so busy dealing with electricians and looking for a plumber and other things in real life the garden has sort of taken a backseat. Adulting is hard, y’all. Since I last posted I have purchased and almost killed another bell pepper plant. I […]
Tomato Talk Week Ten: Bottom Rot, Yellow Leaves, And Other Disasters
I dated a guy on and off for several years while I was teaching elementary school. One May I was down and because my kids were going to be moving on next year. I said to the guy, “This is my best group ever and I don’t want new kids!” And he replied that I […]
Tomato Talk: Week Nine Problems Abound
Around week three I started to wonder if anyone was really interested in my tomato garden. For the first few weeks it was simply talking about each plant and how they were growing and coming along just fine. For the past few weeks however, things have taken a nasty turn. My golden jubilee has one […]
Tomato Talk: Happy Early Girl Day! Errr… I Mean Fathers Day
Sorry I missed last weekend’s Tomato Talk, it was a rough weekend for me. This is week eight since I planted and started the first post of the season. The early girl was supposed to produce a right fruit 57 days later and I counted forward and marked it on my calendar. That is today! […]
Tomato Talk Week Six: My First Tomato!
I picked my first tomato yesterday which I plan to eat as soon as this post goes up. I had to go out into THE WORLD a few minutes ago for Duke’s Mayo and some wine. It’s from the cheat plant, but my early girl and my Golden Jubilee and my yellow plums all have […]
Tomato Talk! Week Five
Sorry for skipping week four. The weather has been crappy (although today is unexpectedly beautiful) and I did very little in the garden last week. I’m worried about all the rain splitting my fruit, but so far so good. My cilantro is growing like crazy. I keep trimming it back so it doesn’t bolt before […]
Tomato Talk! (w)Holey Peppers! White Flies & Marigolds
Welcome to week three of the spring gardening season on TT. If you haven’t started it’s not too late! At least get a cheat plant (the kind that come with flowers or even fruit already) and plop it in your yard, deck, patio or balcony! This week I went to try to get new tires […]
Tomato Talk 2018 Week Two
The plants have been in the ground for about a week and they are all still alive! Even the cilantro. I need to cook something that calls for cilantro soon because it is only a matter of time before it croaks on me. All five of my tomato plants have blooms! Even the pink brandywine […]
Tomato Talk: It’s That Time Again!
After forty days and forty nights of rains of Biblical proportions, Atlanta is experiencing three straight days of sun. Holy Crap! I just looked to see when the next rain is coming and it’s not until FRIDAY. I am totally going to try to get out in every day to pull myself out of the […]
Happy Easter!
It’s a beautiful day in the hood and I’m getting ready to go grab a quick bite with the family. This is the first really pretty weekend we’ve had all year. It’s finally time to switch over from heat to air conditioning and I REALLY need to have my A/C serviced. It’s on the mounting […]
Tomato Talk: Labor Day Weekend Version
The tomato and fig photos in this post were sent to me by a reader on August 21st to show off her very successful garden this year. She lives in California and I will let her identify herself in comments if she chooses to. At that time I put them in my to do box […]
I’m Sweatin’ Like Thomas Ravenel In Church!
It’s hotter than fish grease in Georgia today. And by in Georgia, I mean inside this damn ghetto shack. For the past few days I’ve dealt with this with by doing nothing. These days it takes a lot to motivate me from getting up off this broken down sofa and actually do something productive. But […]
Tomato Talk! (I’m Too Old And Fat For This)
The usual assortment of crackheads with lawnmowers, high school kids trying to replace their stolen iPhones, and the one good guy I’ve used for years to maintain my yard all disappeared this year. The people who own the mostly empty house next to mine used to use a very friendly, strong like bull, woman to […]
Tomato Talk!
It looks like it’s been about three weeks since my last gardening post. I suppose that is because I just haven’t been doing anything with the garden. It’s sort of been left to do its own thing. We’ve had a lot of rain so I haven’t really even watered much. As you can imagine, this […]
Tomato Talk!
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 […]
Tomato Talk!
Forgive me gardeners for I have sinned. It is has been 35 days since my last confession. Today I picked two tomatoes from the cheat plant that I bought at the end of March. They are of good size and almost ripe. They are generally not that great tasting but still better than stored bought […]
Tomato Talk!
I promised I was not going to plant this year, but I had to go to Home Depot and there everything was. So I bought my annual cheat plant. For the new people a cheat plant is one of those hideous hybrids that and big and already budding and sometimes even have fruit. This is […]