Cherokee Purple or Mortgage Buster Seeds
If anyone can put a bunch of Cherokee Purple Tomato seeds in an envelope and send them my way I will be forever appreciative. I may even name my next child after you.
Of course I may not name my next child after you, or I may elect to name my next pet after you or something, but I would really appreciate the seeds.
I would also like to give Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Busters a try. If you can send me a scattering of these I would also appreciate it. After naming things after the sender of the Cherokee Purple seeds, I'm not sure what I could do to show you my appreciation. Maybe I'll write a haiku and dedicate it to you. Maybe a limerick.
Anyway, if you have a sedd or seven to spare, please fire off an email!
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
Edited 3/10/2009 10:41 am ET by Dagwood
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
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(post #11886, reply #1 of 31)
Since no one has any seeds to offer...
If you are planting either of these varieties this summer, please post your address. Directions to the tomato patch would also be a help if it isn't at your house.
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
(post #11886, reply #2 of 31)
I have extra Cherokee Purple seeds--I thought I had sent a message--must have had a senior moment. Contact me with address and I will send some. I also have 25 other varieties, but not Mortgage lifter.
(post #11886, reply #3 of 31)
I will! Thanks!
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
(post #11886, reply #4 of 31)
"The check is in the mail". Or seeds, whatever.
(post #11886, reply #5 of 31)
Thanks!! If you'd like I can send you some thistle or grape ivy seed. Sadly thats about all I have to trade right now.
The grape ivy takes root and really does an amazing job of attracting birds to help it reseed naturally.
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
(post #11886, reply #6 of 31)
Thanks for the great offer, but I regretfully must decline. I was visiting down in Missouri a few years ago and I noticed these bright pink roadside flowers which I thought were really very attractive, and asked what they were. Their name for them was Canadian Thistles, and they did not seem very happy to have them for some reason or other, in fact they used some not too polite adjectives to describe them. But I still think they are attractive in bloom. Perhaps you could learn to love them? I bet they attract a LOT of birds. And I hate to admit to not knowing something, but I don't know what grape ivy is, at least not as a weed. I have seen a houseplant called grape ivy. A great garden writer (so great I forgot who it was) once wrote "a weed is just a plant growing where you don't want it to be."
(post #11886, reply #7 of 31)
Yer right - I made my first mistake ever. I meant wild grape vines.
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
(post #11886, reply #8 of 31)
Who would have thunk it? Regretfully I must pass on those too, as I already have a woods full of them. They do make lovely wreaths though. A thought about those--find some crafty person and convince them they would really love to harvest all those grape vines and make lots of items to sell at a craft show. And maybe you could convince this person to do it year after year after year................And while they were at it they could pick lots of thistle seed pods to decorate them with.
Edited 3/25/2009 9:30 pm ET by 1946
(post #11886, reply #9 of 31)
Trust me '46. I've tried everything to get them gone. I even offered free "workshops"
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
(post #11886, reply #10 of 31)
Dag - you have my deepest sympathies. A couple of years ago I mistakenly thought I was in error. And thus is perfection lost. It took me years to recover. Let me know if there's anything I can do; you can count on me for support.
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
(post #11886, reply #11 of 31)
The greatest help you can give Marty, would be to stand proudly in my defense whenever Jeana chimes in. I know she is gleefully rubbing her hands together at this very moment, dreaming up just the right words.
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
(post #11886, reply #12 of 31)
Oh, Gawd, what have we got ourselves into?
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
(post #11886, reply #13 of 31)
Hehehehehe...
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #11886, reply #14 of 31)
Well, that wasn't so bad. I was expecting more of a "Mwah-Ha-Ha" and some moustache twisting. Of course neither you nor I have a moustache so...
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
(post #11886, reply #15 of 31)
Of course, I don't. I wax.
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #11886, reply #16 of 31)
Well the envelope arrived and the seeds are sown.
I am trying to pick out what to name in your honour. Perhaps a sparrow - perhaps a snail.
Would you rather be a sparrow than a snail? Do you think you would, if you could?
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
(post #11886, reply #17 of 31)
I am sort of a snail, but I'd rather be a sparrow, preferably a song sparrow, but as I happen to be tone deaf all the other song sparrows would probably shun me. Can I be a cat, so I could sleep about 16 hours a day, and get away with it?
(post #11886, reply #19 of 31)
The stray black cat that wanders through our yard from time to time shall hereafter be known as 1946, by decree of th ehead of household (when SWMBO lets me be HOH)
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
(post #11886, reply #22 of 31)
Thanks, I'll be happy to be a stray cat, just please don't shoot me or anything. And I did get the song, I'm just not totally sure if you need encouraging or not! Can I ask SWMBO?
(post #11886, reply #30 of 31)
Dagwood, Please tell me that at least a few of those seeds germinated. The ones I planted did not (I only planted three) and I am feeling bad that I may have sent you bad seeds. If none of yours germinated either, consider this an abject apology. And then I suppose you will have to find a new name for the cat too.
(post #11886, reply #31 of 31)
No fears '46. The seeds haven't done much, however I found this place... and I will be lined up at the gate on opening day to snag the tomatoes of my dreams.
http://www.springbreakfarm.ca/index.php?pr=Information
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
(post #11886, reply #18 of 31)
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet; yes I would....
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
(post #11886, reply #20 of 31)
I wondered who would catch the reference.
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
(post #11886, reply #21 of 31)
I didn't just catch it, it's been playing over and over and over in my head ever since you posted it this morning.
North Carolina - zone 7
North Carolina - zone 7
(post #11886, reply #23 of 31)
I've always wondered about those lyrics. I mean, who exactly *would* rather be a snail instead of a sparrow or a nail instead of a hammer?
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #11886, reply #24 of 31)
It's a peasant's lament.
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
(post #11886, reply #25 of 31)
You mean like, would you rather be Donald Trump or one of his minions? Now, THAT'S a head-scratcher.
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #11886, reply #26 of 31)
Oh, that's an easy one. I'd rather be dead.
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
(post #11886, reply #28 of 31)
LOL!! Me too!
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #11886, reply #27 of 31)
Actually... I know you really didn't ask for an explanation, but the words were written by Paul Simon and tagged onto a tune that was stolen from someone else. I know there was a "friendly lawsuit" over it.
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree