Menace in the garden!

[Crandrew]

Originally Posted by dustdevil

He's ready and primed to learn stage 2: The Lively Art of Weeding

haha

Yeah go slow on that one. Sometimes the plants can look like weeds to kids.

[Rockporter]

Originally Posted by arivaraci

Here is a picture of my sweet menace playing in the garden beside my favorite tomato plant which I guess is now his favorite plant.

He looks so natural out there.

[ginger2778]

He sure is a cute little terror!

[arivaraci]

Aw, shucks, I definitely think he is a cutie - Thanks! (and a terror that has unequivocally cured me from wanting any more children -Ha!)

Originally Posted by arivaraci

Aw, shucks, I definitely think he is a cutie - Thanks! (and a terror that has unequivocally cured me from wanting any more children -Ha!)

I think when you have a cutie who likes to dabble in gardening, you should concentrate on producing a whole passel of them. But since I have never been pregnant, it's just to easy for me to say that.

Ted

[arivaraci]

Oh, Ted, that's sweet of you to say. But it wasn't the pregnant part or the delivery part that cured me - it is the non-stop/hell-bent energy this one has. Really thought I should have received some kind of parenting award with my first; come-to-realize that she is by nature a freakishly well-behaved temperate child. And my son, well, God help me, I am too exhausted to think of the right word, but he makes double-digging my garden seem easy!

Originally Posted by arivaraci

Oh, Ted, that's sweet of you to say. But it wasn't the pregnant part or the delivery part that cured me - it is the non-stop/hell-bent energy this one has. Really thought I should have received some kind of parenting award with my first; come-to-realize that she is by nature a freakishly well-behaved temperate child. And my son, well, God help me, I am too exhausted to think of the right word, but he makes double-digging my garden seem easy!

Do I detect a hint of "tongue in cheek" when you say "thats sweet of you"?

We raised two holy terror boys and one sweet as an angel girl. I always wanted to blame the boys temperament on genetics inherited from their mother, but one was adopted when he was three days old. The genetics excuse simply couldn't have worked or I would have claimed our daughters genetics for my side of the family. The nice thing is the fact that all three are well over forty years old and very good people. Today makes yesterday worthwhile.

Ted

[johnyoga2]

About a million years ago, there was a program on PBS called Crockett's Victory Garden. Jim Crockett would, I believe, have called your tomato problem "Early Finger Blight". While it is a problem, my understanding is that, if you garden in a urban area, as the tomatos start to approach peak ripeness, you can sometimes encounter "Late Finger Blight", which is much more disappointing.

[arivaraci]

So my real life tomato villain has struck again! Picked the first non-cherry ripes yesterday, brought them in and put them on the counter. This morning as I am putting up the safety gate on the stairs for my littlest rascal. He rounds the corner of the hall with my 2 perfect tomatoes - one in each hand. I thought "how cute." And then he handed them to me and I noticed that each tomato had one perfect bite mark from my very own Tomato Villain! Of course we ate the rest of the tomato for lunch. And I have chuckled continuously all day about it! (Please, let me get the next one and selfishly I want the whole thing to myself!)