Ranty McRanty pants

Okay boys and girls, gather round. We're going to have an impromptu lesson about street addresses in the United States. Do you know what the components of a street address? Let me show you.

1313                  Mockingbird Lane
^                        ^
House number    Street Name

Now I want you to focus on those numbers at the beginning of that address. Do you see that? That is what's called a house number. You don't need to actually be a house to have one. Businesses, parks, hell even empty lots all have one. The second part is the street name.

Why is this so important? Because if you don't give the house number it is impossible to find the damn location of a place with GIS. Do you realize how many damn green areas that may or may not be parks you can have along a street? I'll tell you how many. FUCKING LOTS. HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO FIGURE OUT WHICH PATCH OF TREES IN YOUR TOWN PWECIOUS CENTENNIAL PARK IF YOU DO NOT GIVE ME A FUCKING CORRECT STREET ADDRESS?!?!

I feel better now.

Gardening babble

Today I pruned the Cherokee purple tomato plant so it will hopefully produce more fruit. To be honest, I didn't realize I needed to prune it. I'm so use to growing determinate varieties (like my roma) that I didn't realize that the Cherokee purple was an indetermine variety that would benefit from pruning. Live and learn.

The roma is producing has about a dozen or so tomatoes on it right now. The first batch of four should be ready in another week or so. The others will ripen over the next month. I haven't lost a single fruit to blossom end rot, which is caused by calcium deficiency . Last year, I lost about half my crop to it. I managed this by finally finding tomato specific fertilizer which was actually tomato specific. You'd be amazed at the number of fertilizers promoted as being "for tomatoes" that have excessive amounts of nitrogen and little calcium. Never mind that calcium deficiency is one of the bigger problems with tomato plants.

I've got four tomatoes on the Cherokee purple. It's probably not going to produce as much fruit as the roma, but it'll produce fruit much longer than the roma. Maybe. Summers are shorter here in Indiana than in North Carolina. My roma was producing tomatoes up till the first frost last year. Then again, I also started it late. This year I started it early indoors. We'll see how that works out.

I'm going to record how much each plant produces in the lovely gardening diary miome gave me. Then I can decide next year whether to grow both kinds again or stick to one.

I'm so looking forward to my first harvest!