Comments on: Lucy and Ethel

By: Bev

Bev — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:36:37 +0000

I have just harvested my first tomatoes. I love home grown tomatoes. The first one to ripen are the Sweet 100 and Yellow Pear. I also planted Celebrity, Mr. Stripey, and Persimmon. I can’t wit until I have enough to make sauces with.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:40:38 +0000

Huge fan of your blog, Joy.

Anyone with a garden can relate to the pure torture of having to wait for the actual fruit.

I share in your home grown tomato love.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:35:04 +0000

First, you make me smile.

Secondly, I have the tiny red nano chromatic and her name is Lucy. My last one was Ethel.

You’re great!

By: Mary R

Mary R — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:33:37 +0000

Hi Joy,
I’m a new reader of your blog! Thanks for your posts…they are great.

Actually, I just posted on my blog about dinner last night with homemade pasta and a sauce made with cherry tomatoes and other vegetables I grow on my balcony. Hurray for homegrown food!

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:24:57 +0000

Our three tomato plants are less advanced than yours, but still look promising. The zucchini on the other hand is absolutely out of control! Also, we have a lot of basil coming up – it’ll save us big money to be able to just run out front and snip it as needed. Now, if we could just make our own mozzarella . . . .

By: Regina

Regina — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:56:36 +0000

I started a little garden when you planted yours and my tomato plant is just getting some flowers on it. I’m very excited by this and I check the plants compulsively. I also have a bunch of jalapeno peppers sprouting and that’s keeping my sadness due to dying squash plants at bay. Thanks for the gardening encouragement.

By: Georgia

Georgia — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:17:36 +0000

Oh! I soooo love the first signs of Tomato! I only have flowers in my garden but have small yellow squash as well (a first for me this year) so I’m very very excited!

By: Graciela

Graciela — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:08:12 +0000

Yes, I am gardening too! I have an Earthbox, which is a sub irrigated planter and I’m growing watermelon, butternut, summer squash, and pimiento pepper. I live in a bungalow with a very strict landlord so one box is all I could have. Flowers, she’s okay with. So I have lots of those in standard containers. Glad to see your tomatoes are growing despite the June gloom.

By: Phoo-D

Phoo-D — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:08:49 +0000

Oh those are so cute! We put in 10 tomato plants but they haven’t developed blooms yet. I have a feeling when they do we’ll be eating nothing but tomatoes for a month…

By: Jovian

Jovian — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:25:02 +0000

Hey! Hey! That’s what’s happening to MY tomatoes!! They’re growing, too!
(So exciting!)