"Tony" Thought Journal 3.0

Tony Page said:
Just a quick note , I got some San Marzano tomato seeds in the mail today. Looking forward to gardening 26.
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Good luck @Tony Page. I have tried to grow San Marzanos here, but the season is just too short here, even in the greenhouse unless we heat it and light it. We got a few tomatoes but not enough to justify using the space. Cherokee Purple DO grow here in the greenhouse and they are about the same time to maturity, so who knows. Maybe I will try again if my wife doesn't catch me :ROFLMAO:
 
Don Alaska said:
Good luck @Tony Page. I have tried to grow San Marzanos here, but the season is just too short here, even in the greenhouse unless we heat it and light it. We got a few tomatoes but not enough to justify using the space. Cherokee Purple DO grow here in the greenhouse and they are about the same time to maturity, so who knows. Maybe I will try again if my wife doesn't catch me :ROFLMAO:
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A few years back I planted the San Marzano in some pots and in other pots I planted Roma both of them are plum tomatoes. A few weeks after I planted them I forgot which pot had SM and which had R. I think I eventually figured it out by shape and test. I try to be diligent and mark them but I missed that day.

Is there anyway you can start them earlier? Maybe that will help.
 
Tony Page said:
A few years back I planted the San Marzano in some pots and in other pots I planted Roma both of them are plum tomatoes. A few weeks after I planted them I forgot which pot had SM and which had R. I think I eventually figured it out by shape and test. I try to be diligent and mark them but I missed that day.

Is there anyway you can start them earlier? Maybe that will help.
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I could probably start them earlier, and I may yet try that and start them with the peppers. Tomatoes just grow so fast and I start so many that things get out of control quickly. I like to grow stuff we can't buy in the store these days, but when we had the children home, it was all about food production. If you haven't seen the Baker Creek catalog (rareseeds.com) it is worth taking a look at. I like Pink Fang tomatoes just because they look like a canine tooth. We grow several other paste tomatoes that are shorter to maturity, and we ripen a lot on shelves in the garage after cold set in also. I try my best to use OP tomato and peppers and save seeds, selecting for shorter ripening times.
 
Tony Page said:
We have 2 flower beds along the front of the house that got trampled during the fire and the refurbishment construction afterward. By the time we got back into the house, the shrubs and perennial flowers were destroyed. We tried to bring it back to some respect by planting annuals, but we never achieved the beauty it had in the past. Because of our age and health, We just couldn't do the work to bring it back.

I could tell my wife was bothered by this. A few months ago, something really special happened. A high school friend of my daughter contacted her through Facebook, he's a landscape designer. He offered to design the front beds, get the plants for us at his cost, and have his crew plant everything. The cost was very affordable, so we took advantage of his offer.

His crew of 3 men came about 4 weeks ago with a truck load of plants and mulch. It took them a full day to work the soil, plant, and mulch the beds. One of the plants is asked about by everyone that visit, we were told it will flower all year. It's called a pink fairy rose, and it still has flowers on it, even with the cold weather we are having.

My wife is very happy, the eyesore we had has been fixed.

Now it's onto the next problem.
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How sweet of them. Glad the wife is happy and her garden is doing well.
 
Tony Page said:
A few years back I planted the San Marzano in some pots and in other pots I planted Roma both of them are plum tomatoes. A few weeks after I planted them I forgot which pot had SM and which had R. I think I eventually figured it out by shape and test. I try to be diligent and mark them but I missed that day.
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For some reason I have never been successful with Roma tomatoes. I have tried growing them many times and get fruit that looks really pretty and healthy... then when I cut into them they are hollow inside. So annoying!
 
Beth Gallagher said:
For some reason I have never been successful with Roma tomatoes. I have tried growing them many times and get fruit that looks really pretty and healthy... then when I cut into them they are hollow inside. So annoying!
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Have you tried different varieties @Beth Gallagher? It sounds like you may have gotten a stuffing tomato. I don't know, as I have never had that problem and I have lived and gardened in a lot of places...never in Texas though.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
For some reason I have never been successful with Roma tomatoes. I have tried growing them many times and get fruit that looks really pretty and healthy... then when I cut into them they are hollow inside. So annoying!
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I've never had that happen, however when you grow stuff it doesn't always turnout as expected.
I remember one year I pick some large tomatoes, I think they were the variety called Delicious, they had practically no seeds, they were all meat and sweet. Other times they had the standard seed pockets.

I could never understand why you could plant the same variety of tomatoes next each other, with the soil treatment the same and one will flourish the other not so much.

It doesn't matter what you're growing it's always exciting when your crop is ready for picking.
 
"When I was 17, it was a very good year." As the song goes, for me, it was true.

I graduated high school in Brooklyn, which at first was a little scary, knowing my daily routine was over. I didn't know what lied ahead. I did take a test to work in the MTA as an electrician. I studied electronics in HS, not electrical. I studied a workbook and learned about conduit installation, loads, etc.I received a letter from the MTA that I passed the test and was put on a list for hire. Two friends who studied electrical in HS failed the test. Over the 3 years that we studied our vocational choices, we joked, which was better or harder to learn, electronic or electrical. Now I had something to tease them with.

Of course you can make more money as an electrician then you can as an Electronic Tech. Even with an HS diploma that I passed Electronics, I didn't qualify as a tech, so my first job after HS was at Olympic radio and television on the assembly line.
 
Tony Page said:
I've never had that happen, however when you grow stuff it doesn't always turnout as expected.
I remember one year I pick some large tomatoes, I think they were the variety called Delicious, they had practically no seeds, they were all meat and sweet. Other times they had the standard seed pockets.

I could never understand why you could plant the same variety of tomatoes next each other, with the soil treatment the same and one will flourish the other not so much.

It doesn't matter what you're growing it's always exciting when your crop is ready for picking.
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My son asked me recently what is my "secret" to my successful gardening. I told him I plant stuff and hope for the best. 🤣 Some years are bumper crops and others are a waste of fertilizer.
 
Tony Page said:
"When I was 17, it was a very good year." As the song goes, for me, it was true.

I graduated high school in Brooklyn, which at first was a little scary, knowing my daily routine was over. I didn't know what lied ahead. I did take a test to work in the MTA as an electrician. I studied electronics in HS, not electrical. I studied a workbook and learned about conduit installation, loads, etc.I received a letter from the MTA that I passed the test and was put on a list for hire. Two friends who studied electrical in HS failed the test. Over the 3 years that we studied our vocational choices, we joked, which was better or harder to learn, electronic or electrical. Now I had something to tease them with.

Of course you can make more money as an electrician then you can as an Electronic Tech. Even with an HS diploma that I passed Electronics, I didn't qualify as a tech, so my first job after HS was at Olympic radio and television on the assembly line.
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Tony thars interesting and looks like you did good forming your future.
 
Marie Mallory said:
Tony thars interesting and looks like you did good forming your future.
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I didn't take the job at the MTA because my parents were moving to Long Island, and I the cost of transportation from Long Island to Manhattan where the job was, was high. A year after I declined to take the job, I found out the transportation was free if you work for the MTA.

I was a positive person, but stubborn.
 
Tony Page said:
I didn't take the job at the MTA because my parents were moving to Long Island, and I the cost of transportation from Long Island to Manhattan where the job was, was high. A year after I declined to take the job, I found out the transportation was free if you work for the MTA.

I was a positive person, but stubborn.
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Well looks like it worked for you.
 
We're anticipating our first snowfall of the season tomorrow they're predicting up to 6 in. I know for a lot of you out there it's a dusting. On Long Island, the first snow, no matter what the depth , has always been a horrible driving experience. It's like we never drove on snow before.

I asked my daughter to find the snow shovels and put one at each door to be prepared for the coming storm.

My knee is still bothering me, so I doubt I'm going to be much help tomorrow to shovel snow. She's not 100% back from the fractured ankle. She said her and my grandsons would take care of it. we'll see how that goes.

I've been looking for another car for a few months now. Our 1st plan was for my daughter to get another car, and I would buy her car. Then she fractured her ankle, so she stopped looking.

Now I'm at a point where my car has starting problems, and the drivers side window fell into the door well. I have the window covered in clear plastic, I try to use the car as little as possible, especially with a bad knee, and it also has no heat.

I hope the snow gets cleared pronto so I can start my pursuit for a car again. What I've been doing is searching online and writing down the cars I think have potential.
 
Tony Page said:
We're anticipating our first snowfall of the season tomorrow they're predicting up to 6 in. I know for a lot of you out there it's a dusting. On Long Island, the first snow, no matter what the depth , has always been a horrible driving experience. It's like we never drove on snow before.

I asked my daughter to find the snow shovels and put one at each door to be prepared for the coming storm.

My knee is still bothering me, so I doubt I'm going to be much help tomorrow to shovel snow. She's not 100% back from the fractured ankle. She said her and my grandsons would take care of it. we'll see how that goes.

I've been looking for another car for a few months now. Our 1st plan was for my daughter to get another car, and I would buy her car. Then she fractured her ankle, so she stopped looking.

Now I'm at a point where my car has starting problems, and the drivers side window fell into the door well. I have the window covered in clear plastic, I try to use the car as little as possible, especially with a bad knee, and it also has no heat.

I hope the snow gets cleared pronto so I can start my pursuit for a car again. What I've been doing is searching online and writing down the cars I think have potential.
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Your car problems might be easy fixes @Tony Page as the window can be put back on track and the lack of heat may be a clogged heater core or no coolant, but if you want an excuse to get a newer car, this might be a good time, as there are supposedly a lot of repossessions on the market now. A couple times I bought vehicles from Avis when they sold their old units. I also looked at Enterprise, but they seemed more expensive. Those rentals have service records and generally have low mileage for the age.
 
Well we got the snow they predicted probably five or six inches. My grandkids are outside playing it right now. Dogs just came in. Penny our newest family member the snow just sticks to her.

We have to shovel the walkway and clean the cars off. Tomorrow my wife has an appointment with her oncologist at MSK, I'll need the car, hopefully it will start without problem.
 
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