Rebecca's journal-may be time to restart this

[Farmfresh]

My tomatoes are a little brown around the gills but have lots of green tomatoes on them. I have a soaker hose zig zagged through the row and a heavy straw mulch on them. I think that mulch is going to save the day in this heat.

 

[gettinaclue]

Today was farmers market day. I hurried to milk Astrid. Got the kids ready and tried to be the first there. There were only 3 vendors and between all of them probably less than 15 lbs of tomatoes! There was a little bit of okra and some squash. Not a green bean or pea in sight. I got a few pounds of okra to pickle. Well I decided to go to a farm not far from us that sells produce. They had even less than the farmers market! The guy told me he had sold his last box of tomatoes that morning and that he had been buying them in little rock since theirs hadn't come in yet. It's July! I thought everyones tomatoes were producing by now with the exception of mine. I left disgusted. I guess so much for the canning if I have nothing to can!

How disappointing! My tomatoes set an incredible amount of fruit this last week. I have about 20 tomatoes per plant and about 15 plants so I am really excited. It'll be a while before anything turns pink though.

 

[valmom]

Wow- if tomatoes haven't come in yet down there, maybe I should give my pathetic plants the benefit of the doubt. I may have something by fall.

 

[Marianne]

Last year I didn't get ripe tomatoes until two weeks before it froze. Bummer. This year the plants are loaded with green ones, and some are just starting to turn kinda yellow. Yay!

I have two friends with tomatoes that aren't doing anything. One has 5 green tomatoes total (2 plants) the other said she has picked 9 now. She has over 20 plants, different varieties, so that's not what anyone would call extremely productive.

 

[rebecca100]

Mine are just not fruiting either. I think it just got too hot too fast here. I have a total of 5 San Marizano( two had to be plucked-were showing signs of blossom end rot), 1 golden jubilee, 0 brandywines, a few(not sure how many) better boy and a some grape tomatoes. It'll be a while though before any will be ready to pick. I have them in an open greenhouse, so hopefully I can extend the season some if they ever do start producing.

 

[Wifezilla]

I have a lot of green tomatoes, but nothing yet on my pink climbing tomatoes. I have mostly small varieties, red currant, cherry, plumb, etc... because our growing season is so weird. If you plant SMALL maters at least you know you will get some. Plus we eat a LOT fresh so this saves slicing time . My only two "big" varieties are marglobe and black krim. The marglobe plants are LOADED and I am pretty excited. The wait for them to turn red is going to drive me INSANE!

 

[rebecca100]

Okay I am having a hard time understanding what just happened. Dh hasn't wanted to be touched and has been acting funny lately. I asked him today what was wrong. We have been married for fixing to be 12 years. He said he didn't want to talk about it. So I changed the subject and told him I was going to have to build a new pen somewhere for the goat to keep her away from the others. Well he told me not to worry about it that he would bring the camper out to our old place and the kids and I could stay there. I told him that was fine, but my car wouldn't make it down the road and that it would be hard for him to sleep in the camper during the day with all of us in it. He said he wouldn't be coming. We were getting on his nerves and basically he was miserable being around us. He said he didn't want a divorce or anything and that he still loved us, but that he couldn't stand us anymore. Someone please explain to me what just happened. This all happened in the last week. I'm crying typing this because I just don't understand what hapened. He has changed. The kids and I are still the same people that we have always been. So basically he's decided that he's tired of us and sending us away? I don't believe he would cheat, but that is the only reason I can think of.

 

[valmom]

So, he's the dis-satisfied one and he's keeping the house and sending you and kids to live in a camper?? That is just not the right way around. When my ex decided to separate, the kids and I kept the house because it's the kids who count in this equation, and he moved out. Been there, done that, shock and all. Deep breaths. Your life has just been turned upside down, and shock is a reasonable response.

 

[rebecca100]

Actually it is probably better this way. I don't like it here and he knows that. He likes it here next to the highway. There is a mobile home that I had given to me that is in halfway decent shape on it's way to be moved there any time now. He said he didn't know what was wrong with him and he thought it best for us to be away from each other for a while. Sounds like a bunch of bull to me. Since he has started at this new job we went from making a little over 20000 a year to around 70000. He has new friends. Texts all the time and likes spending his money. He actually griped when I made my own laundry soap. Either way now that I have had a chance to get over the shock maybe it will be better this way. I need to make sure to renew my CNA certifications just in case. I have been a stay at home mom for the last year. I have noticed that lately we seem to have nothing in common anymore. He treats my SS efforts like something to keep ms busy during the day and more of an inconvenience and a bother than anything.

 

[abifae]

It might be that he doesn't feel supported. He gets this new job and you just sit around still acting like you are poor LOL. I know that's not at all how it is. If I had more money, I'd be MORE likely to be more SS cuz I could afford a yard. But I've known making more money to destroy relationships for weird things like that. My dad has a few friends who broke up when they got promoted for something like that.