Just bummed - Page 2

peebee · August 3, 2016

As sad as it might be right now, at least you have a new garden awaiting you in France! What a great new adventure you are embarking on! The anticipation of first, seeing your new potential garden, and second, feeling and smelling the dirt as you dig in for the very first time. Hope it will be even more that what you expected!

amideutch · August 3, 2016

Hang in there girl, the shakes don't last long. You will be busy planning out your new digs and what you will be planting next year.

Ami

**tomatoaddict** · August 3, 2016

Well Cip1953 you will have a place to stay if you make the trip over. A little town called Magland in the Haute Savoie region. Close to Switzerland, Italy and Germany. Open invitation. I am taking ALL my seeds! Sending them over a bit at a time. Thanks all. I knew you guys would get it!

imp · August 3, 2016

I shall be looking forward to reading about your new gardening experiences and how things change or do not. How exciting for you!

tootaloo · August 3, 2016

I could not imanagine not having little tomatoe plants started in the spring. My heart goes out to you. Just visit the farmers market to see the heirlooms. That will help.

August 3, 2016

Age is beginning to curtail my gardening activities. I'm trying to withdraw gracefully by planting fewer plants each year. I've reached the point that air conditioned comfort seems more important in the middle of a hot summer than getting those ripe tomatoes and other crops harvested. It kills my soul to know ripe fruit is hanging on the tomato plants and pepper plants and cucumber vines, but it is simply to hot for me to be out there harvesting. I've grown a garden of some type since I was eight years old and I don't know if I can stop. My wife actually checks on me in the garden to make sure I'm okay and she tells me to not go outside because it is too hot.

Ted

Cole_Robbie · August 3, 2016

I've reached the point that air conditioned comfort seems more important in the middle of a hot summer than getting those ripe tomatoes and other crops harvested.

If that's the definition of old age, I got there a lot faster than you

I actually had the thought this year that there are high tunnels and chicken coops on wheels, why not an air-conditioned tent I can wheel around so I can garden inside it?

Don't astronaut suits have air-conditioning? I should just get one of those.

christian1971 · August 3, 2016

During the fall/winter months, looking thru catalogs keeps my spirits up.

MissS · August 3, 2016

She can plan her own catalog once she gets her seeds growing again.

Nematode · August 3, 2016

Make sure you import properly,
Hate to see you lose those seeds at the border.
That would be a bummer.

August 3, 2016	#17
amideutch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Germany 49°26"N 07°36"E Posts: 5,041	Hang in there girl, the shakes don't last long. You will be busy planning out your new digs and what you will be planting next year. Ami __________________ Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘...Holy Crap .....What a ride!'

August 3, 2016	#18
tomatoaddict Moderator Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: zone 5 Posts: 1,459	Well Cip1953 you will have a place to stay if you make the trip over. A little town called Magland in the Haute Savoie region. Close to Switzerland, Italy and Germany. Open invitation. I am taking ALL my seeds! Sending them over a bit at a time. Thanks all. I knew you guys would get it! __________________ Secretseedcartel.com

August 3, 2016	#24
MissS Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin Posts: 3,150	She can plan her own catalog once she gets her seeds growing again. __________________ ~ Patti ~

August 3, 2016	#16
peebee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Southern CA Posts: 1,714	As sad as it might be right now, at least you have a new garden awaiting you in France! What a great new adventure you are embarking on! The anticipation of first, seeing your new potential garden, and second, feeling and smelling the dirt as you dig in for the very first time. Hope it will be even more that what you expected!

August 3, 2016	#19
imp Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas Posts: 4,832	I shall be looking forward to reading about your new gardening experiences and how things change or do not. How exciting for you!

August 3, 2016	#20
tootaloo Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: dayton ohio Posts: 158	I could not imanagine not having little tomatoe plants started in the spring. My heart goes out to you. Just visit the farmers market to see the heirlooms. That will help.

August 3, 2016	#21
tedln Guest Posts: n/a	Age is beginning to curtail my gardening activities. I'm trying to withdraw gracefully by planting fewer plants each year. I've reached the point that air conditioned comfort seems more important in the middle of a hot summer than getting those ripe tomatoes and other crops harvested. It kills my soul to know ripe fruit is hanging on the tomato plants and pepper plants and cucumber vines, but it is simply to hot for me to be out there harvesting. I've grown a garden of some type since I was eight years old and I don't know if I can stop. My wife actually checks on me in the garden to make sure I'm okay and she tells me to not go outside because it is too hot. Ted

August 3, 2016	#22
Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	I've reached the point that air conditioned comfort seems more important in the middle of a hot summer than getting those ripe tomatoes and other crops harvested. If that's the definition of old age, I got there a lot faster than you I actually had the thought this year that there are high tunnels and chicken coops on wheels, why not an air-conditioned tent I can wheel around so I can garden inside it? Don't astronaut suits have air-conditioning? I should just get one of those.

August 3, 2016	#23
christian1971 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: Minnesota Posts: 94	During the fall/winter months, looking thru catalogs keeps my spirits up.

August 3, 2016	#25
Nematode Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2012 Location: massachusetts Posts: 1,710	Make sure you import properly, Hate to see you lose those seeds at the border. That would be a bummer.