I hate Home Depot

[shipperx]

I hate Home Depot.

Well... not really. But I do hate their floors. After you've wandered around in there for a very long time looking for whatever you need, you end up walking out feeling as though you've been beaten. And it's freaking hot right now too.

Okay. Enough complaining. I bought motion sensor lights for the back. Two of my mother's neighbors had break-ins during the last month and, though I live in a safe area, I would feel better with motion sensing lights in the back yard. I also got two solar landscaping lights while I was at it. Now I have to figure out how to install these things.

Picked several tomatoes out of my garden today. The 'Tiny Tim' grape tomato plant has produced oodles of very tiny tomatoes, but to be honest the "Juliet" grape tomato (that I also have) produces better tasting ones. My heirloom tomato "Mortgage Lifter" produced its first tomato of the summer. I hadn't grown this variety before so it was my first chance to try it and it was a very nice, sweet tomato. Not watery at all (of course we had also been in a drought until about a week ago so... that could possibly be a factor. I have four more of these on the vine at the moment, so it's produced quite well so far. I'll probably grow this variety again next year.

I used a combination of all of the ones from the garden for a tomato salad with dinner.

There was also a guy selling fresh Gulf seafood up the street today and so I got a very nice red snapper and invited my parents over to my house to dinner of grilled red snapper, fresh garden tomato salad and some fresh Silver Queen corn that I bought today. Overall, it made a nice dinner and the afternoon rain made it comfortable enough to hang out on the back porch swing while I grilled the fish.

Not a bad Saturday... except the Home Depot concrete floor part. :)

Comments

[molliemole.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a lovely meal. There's nothing quite like home-grown tomatoes fresh off the vine.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Tomatoes already? Iz jealous.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I've tomatoes and banana peppers to my herb garden a couple of years ago. It's nice to have them on hand through the summer.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I grew Juliet (http://www.parkseed.com/gardening/PD/5345/) last summer and was really happy with them. They are a bit larger than a grape but smaller than a roma, and taste more like grape tomatoes. I got over 100 of them off the plant last summer and they produced until early fall.

I just tried Mortgage Lifter (http://www.amazon.com/Mortgage-Lifter-Tomato-Plants-Well-Shaped/dp/B000OOT6KC) and have to say that it is very tasty.

[sourisvho.livejournal.com]

Juliet grape tomatoes are my go-to grape tomatoes. I've gotten crazy insane yields from them before. It's nice to see you like them, too. None of my Juliets are ripe yet, but I have gotten quite a few Early Girls and a handful of Yellow Pears.