Have you ever noticed how anyone who keeps a vegetable garden always has too many tomatoes?

@itsok I love tomatoes just like this. Fancy claws too. 🤭

@itsok I see you fixed some of the garnish! 😋

@itsok Need some cottage cheese and a little more pepper . Hold the salt . For me . ❤️🌹

@SW-User I have so many for you. And my dad will tell you how garden tomatoes are soooo much better than hot house tomatoes 😏 “those tomatoes you get from the store aren’t worth buying”

@itsok my parents tell me about those hot house tomatoes all the time too!! 😂 i dislike hot house tomatoes. Dont taste anything like a fresh garden tomato!!

@SW-User I do salt and pepper. I’m just sick of it by this point 😅

@itsok too bad youre not close by, i would just pop over and take a few off your hands!! 😂

@Oneofthestormboys grew mine from a seed from an Aldi's lemon. he loves the heat and humidity

@saragoodtimes Wow! That puts my pathetic midget tree to shame! Well done!
Just think, if we lived for 200 years, we could become lemon farmers!

@Oneofthestormboys give your' a little time. I put some miracle grow garden soil around it and that seemed to help.. read that trees grown from seed seldom produce lemons but it's pretty and I like to have plants in the sunroom in winter.

@Degbeme Yeah I mean I use coco (pure) but I use the pots twice and then ditch the coco but yeah soil is a lot harder to maintain a balance (which is why I use the coco in the first place) so you probably hit the nail on the head with that one bit of fresh soil next year and you'll be away. Always always something or nothing really but God yeah makes all the difference.
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@AdaXI I`ll have to remember the coco too. Thanks.

@Degbeme Yeah coco has no natural nutrients in it so you do have to use some kind of fertiliser if you just using it pure but it easier to keep stable and it naturally absorbs oxygen so yeah in your case I'd just get a bag and depending on pot size just mix a good bit in with the soil that way it will have the nutrients from the soil but it will also be able to breathe better but like you say you've not changed the soil for a while so if you got good results before with fresh soil, then it's probably just that and at end of the day so you don't really fix what ain't broken but yeah God the weather we had this year in pretty much every country your plants should be booming so like I say just ideas as to what 'might' might not have gone wrong this year, but I think you probably hit it the nail on the head with the soil rotation TBH.
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@itsok ooooops I just recommended that

@WaryWitchWandering it’s the only recommendation there is 😅 everyone has to make salsa or else

@itsok or make a nice caprese

@BlueVeins when I was a kid we had apple trees, and apples would be everywhere
It hurts to be hit with an apple, even rotten ones

@itsok how did you survive?!

@BlueVeins i barely made it 😢

@Coppercoil my mom cans them too

@itsok lets get our moms together and have a canning party.. everybody is invited.. even mr irwin!

@Coppercoil My Mum's got big cans. Her schedule's pretty flexible.

@itsok unless, you're offering some for free 👌

@SW-User I’m begging you, take some tomatoes

@itsok i'll take it, please throw in those shoes i saw earlier too, i really like them 🥂

@exexec Problem with that here too . Mostly the big tomatoes , but only half 🥺

@itsok Create our own La Tomatina in my living room.

@Punxi I’m all in. That would be so much fun. Your poor living room 😂

@itsok I'll have more in the future. Only live once tho'. 🙂

@AnneHoney Or all of them bitter or overgrown with nasty big seeds or they have sponge-like texture. 😑 You peel one after another and can't find a good one.

@AnneHoney sometimes there’s an abundance of cucumbers. I like to make cu umber soup. One year I was starting my cucumbers from seeds, and I was weeding out the weak seedlings and throwing them into my backyard. One took root in the yard beside my patio and got huge. I gave it a tiered plant stand to grow up, which it did and then grew down my patio. I was getting 7 to 8 big cucumbers from it every day. I would’ve been getting more but my boyfriend at the time’s dog would steal them off the plant and I’d find cucumbers with bites taken out of them around the yard.

@itsok I didn’t know dogs liked them

@Doomflower it’s a vegetable garden curse. If you wish to grow food you must be overrun by tomatoes.

@itsok the potatoes are unruly as well

@Doomflower I saw my dad’s potatoes today and they’re so tiny. That sounds.. weird lol

@Kwek00 There are too many cans of jam and pickled fruits already. Each year more and more. 😆 But I prefer frozen fruits anyway. They are not so sweet. I either let them thaw and eat just like that in winter or put them on a cake or a chocolate pudding. I found some jams from 2014 the other day. 😑

Oh yes, also black currants. I already have some from the last year and should do something with it.

@CrazyMusicLover To each their own, if you like the frozen fruit over the tomato sauce, the choice is easily made. But I have the impression you don't just have too much tomatoes, you just have too much of everything.

@Kwek00 That's true. When it comes to fruit.

@JimboSaturn I planted NO tomato plants and I’ll still be eating tomatoes every day

@Pfuzylogic I take everything I’ve said back. I’m gonna see if I can make bloody Marys out of my tomatoes

@itsok
They are good for Lunch and Supper also! 😉

@SW-User how many bags is a years supply?

@Virgo79 losing your youngest to too many tomatoes or not enough. Decisions, decisions

@itsok lol, i usually leave them in the garden until i need some😏

@SW-User I would if I thought I wouldn’t get pelted with tomatoes for it 😞

@SkeetSkeet me too. I feel like I’m required to eat a tomato for every meal because people keep trying to give them to me

@itsok make a big pot of sauce and can it

@BlueGreenGrey I mean, I just stopped harvesting and the okra and plants got way too big. I gave up. I did have a cucumber plant that year that took root in my backyard and got massive. I was getting around 10 cucumbers from it every day

@BlueGreenGrey no, but I made cucumber soup for everyone who would take some