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Unlike exercising or laundry, I always find time to garden. I love it and this year has been especially rewarding so far. I put just about everything in the ground over a month ago and thankfully most of it survived the late frost in mid-April. Now, the garden is really starting to crank up. The squash and zucchini are beginning to pump out tasty little fruits and the tomato plants are getting huge!! This year I have planted 4 types of tomatoes; Rutgers ( a great canning tomato), mortgage lifters, black cherry, and Cherokee Greens and Purples. Well, that’s 5 – so sue me. As long as I can keep the hornworms at bay, I think we will be swimming in tomatoes before long and that is okay by me.
I have come to realize that maybe 25 heads…
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