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Colin_M
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I know it's not really news any more, but I came across this story today and it made me smile about how this goes on whilst we try to coax a half a dozen tomatoes to produce our Summer salads.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/30/dining/20100331-tomato-slideshow_index.html

This is a slide show with 10 different pictures and comments. This one caught my eye - can't do without nature entirely!
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/30/dining/20100331-tomato-slideshow_7.html

Does the commentary on this page seem crazy to you? I thought this only happened on illicit weed farms in the West Country :)
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/30/dining/20100331-tomato-slideshow_8.html
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Poor bees, one of the reasons for the decline of bees is that with monoculture they are not getting a varied diet, its like asking us to live on just carrots, or just tomatoes, man can be so stupid !

Colin, yes it does seem totally crazy, before global warming I can remember having home grown tomatoes till christmas, i used to wrap the still green tomatoes in newspaper and pop them in a draw to ripen, adding a banana, if I wanted them to ripen quickly.
Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconcieved notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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