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Keep Your Trees Weed Free

When a tree, or any plant for that matter, has to compete for water, food and nutrients, it can place extra stress on it.

Try and keep the area under trees and plants weed free. They will grow faster, and healthier.





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Congratulations to our winners for Spring Quarter 2010!
They each have won a personalized Happy Lemon Stress Ball

Susan Head  -  Jim Ozanik  -  Terri Wallace

Spring quarter's Opinion Question was: "In your opinion, using organic practices and products in your everyday gardening routine has been - Easy or Hard?"

Susans's Opinion: "Organic gardening can be fun
Keeping predators on the run
Gathering snails and slugs at night
Keeps our cabbages growing right
Compost bins are filled with waste
To give the crops a better taste
Water butts to save the rain
Mean that watering's not a pain
Companion plants deter the bugs
Crushed eggshells deter the slugs
Two fat cats deter the mice
Organic gardening's really nice
No nasty pesticide or spray
Organic gardening is the way"

Jim's Opinion: "Easy to learn, but hard to apply and get steady, realiable results. Worth it though? Yes!"

Terri's Opinion: "It's been hard! I wanted to start a compost pile, that was hard and I haven't gotten it right yet. I wanted to grow my vegetables organically, but they got eaten by aphids! The one easy thing has been using mulches and adding ready-made compost to my soils. It's worth it though and as I learn, it will get easier!"


You can win too, just enter below!

How this contest works is simple:

  1. Give us your opinion in the form below

  2. Be humorous and whimsical if you like, but succinct

  3. Winners are posted here and chosen every 3 months
    (First of January, April, July, October)

  4. Current submissions are posted below the form on this page

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The Summer (July-September) 2010 Opinion Question is:



 In Your Opinion...

Which are better tasting picked fresh off the vine?
Red Tomatoes or Yellow Tomatoes?


 
CURRENT SUBMISSIONS:

  • "Yellow tomatoes."

    Anna Marquez


  • "I am a tomato-lover! I lean towards fresh off of the vine Yellow Tomatoes. Those pop-in your-mouth size give me the whole-tomato taste in one bite! This no acid variety lets me pop as long as I want and no mess!"

    Denise Morrow


  • "Of course red tomatoes, they're sweet when eaten raw or otherwise. Cooking yellow tomatoes would look like cooking oranges. Imagine a romantic dinner without red, awful is it? Fill your plate with love."

    Augustine Mwebia


  • "Tomatoes are neither one better. They are all good. Nice and juicy and dripping down your face. Now come on can you really determine the better tomato by the color? Each is terrific in their own way!"

    Pamela Brint


  • "I really don't eat raw tomatoes, but our customers go about 80% toward our yellow cherry tomatoes over the red ones. There are the die hard fans of the standard red tomatoes though. I think they are all beautiful, especially mixed, sitting on a plate."

    Jacqueline


  • "That is difficult to answer. I haven't grown yellow plums for a long time, but use to make tomato marmalade out of them. Red tomatoes can not be beaten when sun-ripened on the vine. The aroma, juiciness and ripe, fresh taste are without equivocation the best."

    Catherine Prater


  • "The red tomatoes to me have more flavor. They just taste like a tomato should taste. The yellow ones to me are a little bland. Maybe it's because I eat mostly red ones."

    Leroy Bretey


  • "There is nothing like a tomato basil salad in summer and to make it more colorful, I add the yellow tomatoes as well. It would impress Martha Stewart!"

    Caril Ebreo


  • "While it is tradition to consider the 'red tomatoes' as very flavorful - which they are, the 'yellow tomatoes' are starting to make a name for themselves in flavor and deserve a place beside the 'red tomato'."

    Marguerite


  • "There is nothing like a juicy red tomato right off the vine. Reminds me of my grandparent's house. They grew what seemed to me at the time a huge garden and red tomatoes for always a part of that garden. The salt shaker was always on the kitchen table and sometimes I would take it out to the garden with me to enjoy that perfect tomato!"

    Christina Pearson


  • "I would absolutely RELISH the taste of ANY tomato off the vine! We moved to a zone 2b in Alberta from Van. Island, where everything you plant - grows ! Here it is a miracle in progress - I had four (4) Red Tomatoes last year off my vines - did they taste good - it was an occasion worthy of a Queen, these four red ripe tomatoes, on a clear glass plate, with parsley garnish , sweet, sun warmed , priceless as pearls before swine! - and please may I have some this year on any of my vines ? Red tomatoes I say, they capture the sun and summer!"

    Dorothy M Wilson


  • "Both! I like the Red tomatoes for sandwiches and as an appetizer with fresh mozzerella and basil. However, the yellow pear tomatoes are great in salads and quite tasty too!"

    Barbara Moschella


  • "Red tomato!! There is nothing better than picking a ripe tomato and some fresh basil and making a lite summer snack."

    Dawn


  • "In my view red tomatoes are best as they are full of carotenes and taste 50/50 (i.e. 50% salty and 50% sugary)."

    Rashid Hassan Siddiqui


  • "Is it yellow, is it red
    That tastes the best in my veg bed?
    Tiny, sweet, picked from the vine,
    Or Large and juicy, beefsteak kind?
    Now golden yellow's not as sweet
    But just as tasty and good to eat.
    I realy think 'each to his own'
    Whatever kind that you have sown.
    Red or yellow, large or small
    There's no doubt we can eat them all."

    Mrs Susan Head


  • "Yellow tomatoes reflect the sun, But the red tomato has always won."

    May Fenn


  • "Have tried a few different tomatoes. The Purple heirloom had a good taste but I still prefer the good old acidic red tomato."

    Linda B.


  • "Yellow tomatoes, though attractive, just can't compete with the taste of to a warm sweet cherry tomato or any other red tomato eaten right in the garden."

    Mary Lipsey


  • "Well I like the two off the vine when they are picked fresh. Like when I come home from work and get ready to go fishing, I grab a bag full of the two and away I go. With a pinch of salt all is good."

    Darnell


  • "Flavor depends so much on which red tomato, and there's more than taste to consider: juiciness, texture and tenderness of skin. All of these factors equal, I'd choose the beauty of the red tomato."

    Carol Fox


  • "Yellow tomatoes. The red are great for cooking however the yellow are an explosion of flavor when you pop them in your mouth immediately after picking."

    Anonymous


  • "While I like both red and yellow tomatoes fresh I believe the red are the best tasting. I have grown both but I keep going back to growing red since they have the best taste. I love picking them off the vine and eating them fresh. Nothing better."

    Ann Waters


  • "I belive it is very hard to prefer which tomato is best because any tomato is a good tomato to me. Yellow tomatos are better to eat in the garden (Don"t Forget the SALT), Red Tomatoes can be used in many foods. So I will say (RED TOMATOES) Are Best."

    Emmitt Webb


  • "There is nothing better than an all American piece of red tomato on top of an all American cheeseburger. Baseball, apple pie, and cheeseburgers with tomato -- what a summer!"

    Brian James


  • "Since I never ever had yellow tomatoes, without doubt RED tomatoes are the best for me. In special if they are off the vine, hot from the sun and grown in my own garden. However in summer the plants are too hot to grow here, and in spring the rodents get to them first. What matters is that I have fun growing them and the red ones are my favorites."

    J.N.


  • "I would say red tomatoes, but it depends on the way they are grown and what they are planted in. Compost planted plants grown in a green house tend to be very average. Where as organically grown plants fed on matured manure grown out doors, where it takes the plants longer to develop there fruits are far more rewarding. The watering vastly affects the composition of the actual tomato. I found that yellow tomatoes have a strange and and almost bland flavour. But I will reserve judgment, for now. the home grown tomatoes beat market batches every time."

    Astra Preston


  • "Is there any contest? Red tomatoes hands down! They not only taste better, but you can make sauces and maranaides and soups, and the list goes on and on."

    Stephanie Downs


  • "I prefer the musky - savory taste of the yellow, black, and heirloom tomatoes. Red tomatoes are a dime a dozen, but a good yellow tomato is the best."

    Ted Stone


  • "I love red cherry tomatoes. The yellow pear are very good, but the sweet flavor of a juicy red tomato is to die for."

    Roger Christensen


  • "I like to make homemade ketchup (or is it catsup) and I only use red tomtoes! I don't think a yellow tomato kethcup would be the same."

    Mary Rodriquez


  • "Yellow gold tomatoes and like eating an apple right off the tree. So flavorful, but not too sweet."

    Larry Holgate









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