Doing Instead of Talking

Doing Instead of Talking

I have been so busy catching up from the Shanghai trip that I have not been able to write much. I have been doing garden work instead of talking about it. We are getting lots of everything except tomatoes. The tomatoes are a strange case. I planted some ordinary beefsteak; but most of the tomatoes are either the Porterhouse Beefsteak or Marglobe. The beefsteaks are huge; but they don’t have much flavor. It is like they have enough flavor for a little tomato spread through a big tomato. They will not work for canning in a water bath; because they don’t have much acid.

The watermelon fence is working great except for the few watermelons that fell through. I had to put things under them. Here is a picture of the watermelon fence. It was taken about 4 days ago and I had not cut the grass in the yard then. I have cut the grass since.

We have been getting lots of cucumbers; but my wife missed a lot while I was gone. We cut these huge cucumbers down the middle and took out the seeds. Then we chopped the cucumbers and put them in a jar with onions, vinegar, salt water and olive oil. They are good, good, good.





David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.