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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Ah gee, the James we've come to know and [fill in the blank].  See what
happens when the evil ol' world forces him to agree with me <<eg>>

Lynda, who is still giggling with the image of a knee-jerk reaction that
fibrated right up the spine, down the arms, through the fingers, onto the
keyboard and out through cyber-space <<<bewg>>>
----- Original Message -----
From: clanSkeen <sgian AT planetc.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 8:59 AM
Subject: [Homestead] No till, no planting, no pruning, no work tomatoes


> Late one season I was harvesting the last of the tomatoes from some OP
vines
> when I came across a neglected tomato that, alas, had been badly
sunscaled,
> had blossom end rot, was insect bitten and more than half decayed.  Not
> willing to make the trip up to the compost bins for one tomato, I flung it
> toward the woods.  Being far gone to decay it did not make a very good
> missile and half of it landed at the garden fence, as luck would have it,
on
> an area where I had dumped some excess wood ashes and limestone sand.
That
> is, it was very alkaline.  A tomato seed could not have happened on a
worse
> happenstance: laying exposed to the winter weather on top of the worst
> nitrogen poor alkaline soil possible.