Capitol Hill Blue Forums Misc. Topics Food, Drink and Cooking Seeding Tomatoes

Great cooks think alike.........

chunkstyle, have you noticed that there are fewer bargains at the thrift stores in the last year or so? More people are shopping at them since the economy has nose dived. I suspect that we'll see a corresponding increase in home gardening.

Those gloves come in handy.

So to speak

Send me some seeds Mech! It's almost spring down here!

Yesterday I got 25 pounds of slightly overripe tomatoes for $5. Since we last discussed this I have gotten a Roma Tomato Mill

It takes literally minutes to seed, skin, and puree the tomatoes. You just quarter them, put them in the hopper and turn the crank, sauce comes out one side, seeds and skins out the other. It takes hours to cook the sauce though.

I canned 10 pints of seasoned spaghetti sauce. The chickens loved the seeds and skins.

Greger~It looks like that tomato appliance thingy is working well. I'm glad!

Gregar,

I will mail some seed shortly ! >Mech

May the Gods Bless you Mr. Mechanic!
I have a veritable Tomato Jungle out there right now but the spring seeds will be planted in early February.

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This marks you as a True American, Greger !

I quote from H. W. Fowler's classic Modern English Usage :

1. Have got for possess or have is good colloquial but not good literary English.
2. Gotten still holds its ground in American English. In British English it is, in verbal use (i.e. in composition with have, am, etc.), archaic and affected.

In English, the verb get is among the 20 most common verbs used, especially in speech. In a vast number of idiomatic uses, it expresses a plethora of distinct and varied meanings. These over-worked verbs, on one hand, are an advantage, since they permit the language learner quickly to begin communicating at a basic level, whereas in other European languages a large number of disparate verbs would need to be learned in order to express even very simple concepts. On the other hand, this advantage is largely obviated by the necessity of learning a vast number of idioms (turns of speech which even a complete knowledge of grammar would not permit you to understand) connected with these basic verbs.
For example, "I want to get back at him," meaning "to retaliate" or "achieve revenge." Try to imagine the meaning to be derivable from grammar alone !

If English were a more typical European language, you would have been forced to write "I bought," or "stole," or "obtained," or "received," or "was given," or some such verb form. This requires a larger vocabulary but does have the advantage of conveying more specific information about your manner of obtaining the tomato mill.

Greger--

FYI "True American" in numan speech = dumb as a post and illiterate to boot.