When my wife and I visited there 2 years ago, there were still blank spaces on the walls where the pictures were stolen. A tragedy.
Will try that with the suckersāgreat tip!
Just as a heads up ā it may work better with suckers from some varieties of tomatoes than others. The one in the picture, with all the vestigial roots growing out, is from a cherry tomato variety; and I have another sucker from a slicing tomato variety that is also doing well. Some other suckers are not thriving, however, so I donāt know exactly what is going on there. But, nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Good luck!
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I wonder if this type of sucker root development is sort of similar to how/why āvolunteerā tomato plants emerge.
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My tomatoes are beginning to bloom! Wow, this is early for them. It definitely helped that the weather is very nice. We might hit 85 sometime in the next couple of days.
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Everything is weeks late by me. Enjoy those tomatoes!
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My rose buds were late, then bloomed one day, had about 3 days of nice tight flowers, rained for a week and now the flowers look sort of ratty as there was too much (hard) rain and a little hail. The next set should be ready in 2 weeks.
Thurs and Friday it was 55 to 65 degrees, today 85, tomorrow 72. St. Francis is out in the garden doing his best but he needs a little help. More sun please.
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I didnāt know where to post this but Iāll try here.
I received a prescription by mail order that had to be kept cold, and it came in a cold pack package (a HUGE package for a little inside box - I do hate that there is so much packaging).
Anyway, the cold packs are plant food! It says to cut the corner and squeeze the gel onto the plant to feed it. It says not to eat it so I think there is still some kind of chemical in the gel packs, but how cool that it can have a second purpose.
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Does it specify indoor or outdoor plants? Or if you can or canāt use it on food plants??
Wow, learned something new!
Apparently, there are cold packs like that! Cool. 
(pun intended)
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It doesnāt, but it says not to eat. I donāt have indoor plants, so this will go on the roses. If I had indoor plants, Iād worry about pets eating it.
This is Jetson level innovation.
I was thinking about putting it in that thread but Gardening won. This one is called Nutri Ice
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Note to self: Remember to put on bug spray when going over to cut the ivy off the trees!!!
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Here is my āfirst fruitā of the season, which I picked this morning:
This is a āBlack Princeā variety; in the past, it has not normally come in this early. Here in East Tennessee I always think of July as ātomato monthā; but this particular tomato has ripened before any of the blackberries in my garden, which usually ripen mid- to late June. Most of the rest of my tomatoes appear to be coming in on schedule; it is just this one that appears to be an outlier.
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More tomatoes from my garden, which I have put on our kitchen windowsill to finish ripening:
From left to right, the varieties are Black Prince, Brandywine, Mason Marvel, and Purple Bumble Bee (a cherry variety); with some mint from the garden cut and put into a highball glass with water.
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Really jealous! I want to eat just ONE. 
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weāve been nursing twobeds of broccoli through monsoon season and today it has not rained ā but the next four days will be well over 90 and the broccoli is likely to just bolt. rats! And our germination rates on everything are just atrocious!!
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Very nice! I have a Purple Bumble Bee in my deck garden, but it is still blooming. No fruit yet, which is typical for my neck of the woods.
Have some container zucchini though! This is the compact variety:
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Anybody have experience with the pictured plant? The Seek plant id app says it is Common Purslane (Portulaca oleracea). It grows all over my front sunny garden area, and I usually treat it like a weedā¦ though possibly it was planted by my mother long ago. A friend mentioned that some people really like it, so I tried one year to transplant but had little luck.
looks like a jade plant