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So I need to grow beautiful, tasty, perfect Brandywines in a pot to prove you all wrong? Ooo the pressure is on

Sludge, bacteria, fungus and scum. Yummy!

Do I have to do anything special to save the seeds Petee?

I want to see pictures of gardens on here this year!!

I planted it once and we had 8 years of a lovely field of dill, just where I didn't want it. You could walk out my door and smell it.  Lesson learned, mint goes in a pot and dill stays in the seed packet at the store The only thing I could tell you lavender is that it was on a protected hillside, it might like to be really well drained.

I'm going to do a big pot of herbs this year too. I don't think I will ever plant herbs in the ground again after "The Dill Incident". Anyone who has ever planted dill will understand.

If I wasn't stuck here...in the burgh I am still hoping you ladies can figure out a way I can have a garden in the woods on a lot covered with deer when we move LOL. Let me guess...Aerogarden?   I am ordering my tomato seeds right now.

Give us your opinion after you get some tomatoes. I thought it was kind of watery when I grew it years ago and somebody who grew it last year wasn't fond of it either. I remember it as being late but with lots of tomatoes.

I see there is a hybrid Brandywine now or at least I think I saw one. Wonder what that is like?

I used to grow all sorts of different tomatoes but with the dry growing seasons we have had the last few years I gave it up for the tried and true that I know will grow here. I'm getting the urge again. Must be spring.

It just looked like the kind of tomato that I really like, I get them at the store and have to pay $$$ for them. They are marked as "heirloom" and they are watermelon pink and have a completely different flavor, and are sometimes oddly shaped. I am a little concerned about the size of this one to grow in a pot, but I am going to use a very big pot. I haven't started seeds inside for years and always have mixed luck doing that, but I am not sure if I can find an heirloom variety in live plants if I wait. Any suggestions?

My chosen tomato this year...we'll see how this does in a planter:

Brandywine heirloom tomato is Probably the first heirloom to achieve "cult status" within the growing popularity of heirloom tomatoes. A pink, potato-leaf, Amish variety from the 1880

I'm just growing tomatoes in a pot and some herbs this year

Thank you, we are so sad, I wish I had a collar of his or something but he wouldn't wear one. The vet gave my husband a pawprint

In memory of my kitty Bob who died today. We only had him for 6 months and the only pictures are on my cell phone.

We just got him all of his shots & had him neutered over the last 5 weeks,

he got sick this week and we found out today that he had feline AIDS. RIP Bob, such a sweet kitty  

*1/8 C baby oil

*1/8 C baby shampoo

*1-1/2 C water

*8 drops of lavender oil

*5 drops of tea tree oil

Add the baby shampoo last, mix the solution gently, put in a spray bottle and use with toilet paper.  I used this the whole time with my daughter and would never use anything else.

I paid 20 bucks for a gallon of weed killer and I could have used boiling water?  

I ran out of weed killer and frankly it's expensive, and I thought I remembered reading somewhere that sidewalk salt will work.  So I spread some along my fence, should I expect my weeds to die or have I committed an environmental crime of some sort?

Here's one found on an old message board, I can't wait to try it!

STRAWBERRY SOUFFLE

INGREDIENTS:

butter and sugar for the ramekins (baking dishes)

4 large egg whites

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup strawberry sauce (see recipe below)

8 ounces strawberry yogurt

chocolate sauce (your choice)

DIRECTIONS:  Heat the oven to 375 degrees.  Coat the inside of 4 ramekins with butter and sugar.  Using an electric mixer, whip the egg whites on high speed while gradually adding the 1/2 cup sugar.  Beat until stiff peaks form.  Gently fold in the strawberry sauce and yogurt, then fill the ramekins with the mixture.  Place the ramekins in a larger baking dish. Pour water into the dish to come 1 inch up the sides of the ramekins.  Bake until the tops of the souffles are lightly browned and spring back when touched, 8 to 10 minutes.  Top the souffles with chocolate sauce. Serve at once.

Strawberry Sauce: To a saucepan over medium-high heat, combine 1 pint (2 cups) fresh hulled-and-quartered strawberries, 3 tablespoons sugar, and 2 tablespoons water.  Bring to a boil for 1 minute.  Reduce heat.  Simmer slowly, stirring constantly until sauce reaches syrup consistency.  Remove from heat, let cool, and puree until smooth.

Those are great pictures, I miss my hummingbird moths...my huge butterfly bush died and they all left.

Aldi's Astra is super cheap and works fine for me!

I found a website with the longest list of supposed "deer resistant" plants that I've seen:

http://www.deerxlandscape.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_main.html?p_catid=57

Pumpkin Parfait

One 4oz. box instant vanilla pudding

One 30oz. can prepared pumpkin pie filling

1 cup graham cracker crumbs

2 pints vanilla ice cream

1 cup chopped nuts - walnuts or pecans

6 maraschino cherries

Cool Whip

1.  Make vanilla pudding, cool, scrape into large bowl.

2.  Fold in pumpkin pie filling.  Chill.

3. In 6 parfait glasses, layer custard, crumbs, ice cream, nuts, Cool Whip, cherry on top.

Thanks!  I just Googled it and found "very aromatic, distasteful to deer".  In other words, they stink.  LOL!

Blooming at a house at TL, I like them. Can anyone help?