Greetings from NC

[peterg]

Hi Everyone,

I am a 60 year old brummy living in the extereme western corner of North Carolina. I first started trying to grow things when I lived in New Jersey but everything that went into the ground (except for daffodils and foxgloves) got eaten in pretty short order by the burgeoning deer population.

After retiring I moved down here to the mountains and started gardening in ernest! Since my wife is Thai, I have concentrated on oriental plant such as Thai Chillies, Lemon Grass, Thai and Thai Holy Basil, Thai Egg Plants, and Thai Tomatoes.

Just recently the county I live in has opened a community garden so I have been able to expand into more traditional vegetables such as Pototoes, Bell Pepper, Okra, Beetroot, Cabbage, etc. I am looking forward to seeing how it all turns out in the Autumn.

My wife and I are also amateur potters. We live near a nationally recognised folk school ( https://www.folkschool.org/ ) where we have taken a number of courses. We are to the point where the stuff we trun out is not half bad.

BTW: The area we live in has an abundance of wild blackberries and blueberries. They are flowering right now and both the wife and I are looking forward to making scrumptious pies!

[Shirley]

Hello to you and your wife! Sounds like a wonderful place to live.

[Millymollymandy]

Hello and welcome! What are Thai tomatoes like? I know the other veggies/herbs and have grown some of them.

[peterg]

Thai tomatoes tend to be round and the size of a golf ball. The really nice thing about them is that you pick them and throw them into the freezer without any prep. what so ever. We are just finishing up last years crop. And suffice it to say they taste like tomatoes!

[Millymollymandy]

Thai tomatoes tend to be round and the size of a golf ball. The really nice thing about them is that you pick them and throw them into the freezer without any prep. what so ever. We are just finishing up last years crop. And suffice it to say they taste like tomatoes!

That's what I do with cherry tomatoes and when you defrost them the skins just come off easily which is brilliant. I've just googled thai tomatoes and they look an interesting size but some sites said good for a hot wet climate which is the opposite of what we have in this neck of the woods in summer!

[MuddyWitch]

Welcome to ISH

Look forward to hearing all about your pies.

MW

[CyberPaddy66]

Hi.

[peterg]

I've just googled thai tomatoes and they look an interesting size but some sites said good for a hot wet climate which is the opposite of what we have in this neck of the woods in summer!

Considering we have just come out of an extended drought, I never had a problem growing Thai tomatoes. We seldom have much rain from June/July onwards and the temperature averages the low 80's (we still use Fahrenheit over here) with an occasional peak into the 90's.

[Muscroj]

Hi from another newbie. I'd like to take up pottery, its someting my mum did as a hobby for a number of years when I was a child, must be lovely to be able to make useful things out of a lump of earth!!

[Green Aura]

Hi, and welcome.

Your neck of the woods sounds lovely - any chance of some pics? I'm not much of a traveller but I love seeing where other people live.
In fact that would be good for a new thread - if only I could work out how to upload photos