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Not just no but HELL NO! My granddaughters are not going to be sharing the bathroom at school with boys of any age no matter their sexual preference.

Once again Obama oversteps his authority.

Jar - Had the Pink Girl for supper last evening. Good tasting and meaty to top it off. Can see why you like them so much.

It was her remark " that should make people want to move there in droves". I explained we moved here because of the people including the ones she disagrees with so strongly.

Diane - I'd really like to know why you have such an all consuming need to involve yourself with absolutely everything in Elk County. By the way I like the people in Elk County - it's one of the reasons we moved here. I've found them to be friendly and more than willing to lend a helping hand if needed.

It might be a tomato fruitworm. I've found a few in the last few days. The hole doesn't always go all the way to the interior - like they started and quit and moved on to another.

Jarhead - How are the Pink Girls doing? Been picking enough toms to have with supper every night. Figure it will be about a week until I'm inundated with enough tomatoes to start canning salsa etc. Cukes are going great and soon it will be pickle time!

It's a deep red color inside however the gel around the seeds tends more toward green rather than yellow. Taste is really, really good. So far this is the only purple/black tomato I've grown before. Also growing Cherokee Chocolate which is a sport of Cherokee Purple. Hoping that with the drop in the temperatures starting Sunday more tomatoes will set on. The other stuff in my garden is way behind yours. Probably pick the first beans this weekend and maybe cukes in about a week. Other than butternut I'm not growing squash in my garden this year. One of my boys is so will be getting them from him hopefully. I'm looking to saving seeds for next year and didn't want anything to cross. Lost all the sweet corn due to a cow jumping a fence. She left five stalks standing. The dogs have always taken care of the coon problem here.

Just picked my first tomato. A Cherokee Purple weighing in at 1 lb. The Principe Borghese tomatoes are just a couple of days away.

Delbert - Have you ever tried starting your own sweet potato slips? I did it this year mostly just to see if I could. Considering I don't have any sunny windowsills (actually no windowsills) it went fairly well. I only put seven slips out - space is limited and since I've never grown sweet potatoes before I thought I'd see how well they do for me before I go wild with them. STILL no tomatoes turning red but lots and lots of green ones. Have had a touch of early blight this year which I usually don't have. Rather surprised by it considering nothing has ever been grown in that spot before. Had to give up and spray the potatoes - little grasshoppers were eating them faster than they could grow.

I've a lot of manure etc. worked into the soil so the only thing I've used this year is fish emulsion. I've used Miracle-Gro in the past and too many times I've found it's giving too much nitrogen for the plants. Lots of foliage and little or no fruit. In some of the reading I've done a lot of people suggest using the Miracle-Gro bloom booster for flowers on tomatoes instead of the others. Has less nitrogen in it and more phosphate.