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Posted by goldhills via Gympie, Qld (My Page) on Fri, Oct 21, 05 at 18:40
| The kids have their own vegie gardens and this is a bowl of romas, just under 2kgs, from their garden. They get this amount every couple of days from 3 or 4 plants. Not as good as the ones you tomato lovers grow but it keeps us going.
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RE: Roma Tomatoes
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Wow, very nice! That's a great looking bowl of home grown tommies  So really they're already experienced heirloom tomato growers, tomatophiles in the making... hehe I think it's fantastic to encourage young ones in gardening - I bet you're very proud of their achievements! PP |
RE: Roma Tomatoes
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| Tell the kids that this so-called tomato lover is green with envy. |
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| Well GH thats at least $4.00 you owe your children and thats just for today. The up side to that is you know they are Australian grown and owned and the money won't be leaving the country! |
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| I've heard that Roma tomatoes are resistant to fruit fly. Have you had any troubles with fruit fly? |
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| The kids have really gotten into gardening lately. They need to be reminded to water occasionally but otherwise look after them pretty well. Yeah HJ, they don't forget to remind me to pay them. It's one way they earn pocket money. I think sometimes they overcharge me :) Chris, for some reason I don't seem to have trouble with fruit fly around here. I usually suggest to the kids to use Romas because they are easy and prolific though my son has Ox-heart planted as well which are just starting to ripen. We usually lose more fruit to caterpillars, probably threw 8 - 10 tomatoes to the chooks when we picked these. |
RE: Roma Tomatoes
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| Don't know whether it's too late up your way, but Kmart are selling punnets of mixed heirlooms (from Diggers Seeds) this year. The kids might have fun with them - there's at least one that has a bizarre colour ( light green with dark green stripes when unripe and green and gold stripes when ripe). Just a thought. |
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Great stuff. Congratulations to the people concerned.
Our plants are about 1 cm. high at the moment.
We can drean though. I might print that photo and keep it near me. Thanks. |
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