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Page 4B, The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, January 31,2024 SUPER BOWL ACROSS 1. Desert bloomers 6. Request for tailor 9. Paul Bunyan’s com panion 13. Delivered by plane 14. Boiling emotion 15. Match play result? 16. Like the North vs. the South war 17. Bag, $ Paris 18. Nymph of lakes and springs 19. *Team that never made it to Super Bowl 21. *Last year’s Super Bowl winner 23. *Safety value 24. Disfigure 25. *Birthplace of NFL 28. Roofed colonnade 30. Dr. Seuss’ Yertle 35. Auctioneer’s final word 37. Sea eagles 39. Popular winter boot brand 40. Largest ethnic group in Rwanda 41. User’s destination 43. Like Twiggy’s skirt 44. Former anesthetic 46. Not all 47. Death notice 48. Like r in American English 50. Luau souvenirs 52. Opposite of WSW 53. Vatican’s head 55. Cattle prod 57. *AFC’s top seed 60. *Host state of this year’s Super Bowl 63. Like allergy spray 64. Second person of be 66. Pleasant odor 68. Fervent 69. Grazing ground 70. “When pigs fly!” 71. Modeling material 72. *NFL Honors’ announcement 73. Trento’s Council of DOWN © StatePoint Media 1. Chlorofluorocarbon, abbr. 2. Alight, past tense 3. Boat mooring spot, e-g- 4. Short for betwixt 5. Wife’s parents 6. Serpentarium noise 7. Time period 8. Hajj destination 9. Hillside, in Scotland 10. “Dream on!” (2 words) 11. Constricting snakes 12. * zone 15. Bad blood 20. Post-it user 22. Not miss 24. Street opening 25. *Half-time show entertainer 26. Compass point 27. In spite of the fact, arch. 29. Loads from lodes 31. *CBS announcer and former QB 32. Native American group 33. Famous Bolshevik 34. *Like the Super Bowl players 36. Sonny & Cher, e.g. 38. Ditto 42. Neutral shade 45. With mature ap pearance 49. Bamboozle 51. Learned one 54. Religious song 56. Defier 57. Not top-shelf 58. On the ocean 59. Deviate 60. Type of tide 61. Peace symbol 62. End of grace 63. *49ers’ conference 65. Short for one time around 67. Short for Arthur Tips for Selecting the Best Tomatoes for Your Garden Special to the Ledger by Melinda Myers Whether you enjoy tomatoes sliced, sauced, or cooked in your fa vorite recipe, they taste best when grown and harvested from your garden or container. With more than 10,000 varieties available it can be difficult to select the best ones to grow in your garden. Start by looking for those varieties best suited to the intended use whether for slicing, cooking, preserving, or snacking. Most seed catalogs and websites as well as plant tags and garden centers provide recommendations. Bite-sized tomatoes are great for salads, rel ish trays, and snacking. Trailing varieties like Lizzano, Tumbling Tom, Litt’l Bites Cherry, and Red Robin also grow well in hanging baskets and even window boxes. Paste and sauce toma toes have meatier fruit making them perfect for sauces, soups, and preserving. Roma is the traditional favorite with an egg-shaped fruit that has thick walls and few seeds. The All-America Selections Early Resil ience Roma has excel lent disease and blossom end rot resistance and does not require stak ing. Use paste tomatoes during the growing sea son for sauces, chop and add them to an omelet, can or freeze them for future use. Grow a few slicing tomatoes to enjoy on sandwiches, grilled, or on their own. Beefsteak and Better Boy are longtime favorites while Iron Lady, Galahad, and the colorful Chef’s Choice series are more recent additions to this category. Perhaps you are looking for an heirloom tomato, one that has been grown for more than 50 years and main tained its original traits and popularity. Chero kee Purple’s rich flavor constantly rates high in taste tests. Brandywine, Black Cherry, Chocolate Stripes, Amana Orange, and Black Krim are also gardener favorites. Coax reluctant veggie eaters of all ages to give tomatoes a try with some of the sweeter varieties like Sunsugar often called the candy of the garden. Consider having a taste test after growing a variety of su per sweet tomatoes like Sungold, Super Sweet 100, Suncherry, and Sunrise Bumble Bee. Boost your success by selecting disease-re sistant varieties and growing your tomatoes in full sun and moist well-drained soil. Plant tags, internet sources, and catalog descriptions usually highlight this and other helpful infor mation. Look for tomato varieties suited to your growing conditions. Check with your Uni versity Extension for a list of recommended varieties for your area. You will also find help- Photo courtesy of All-America Selections Lizzano is a semi-determinate tomato great for hanging baskets. ful information on the best time to start tomato seeds indoors and when to place transplants in the garden. Start enjoying the harvest sooner with fast-maturing tomatoes. These are perfect if you have a short grow ing season or are just anxious for your first garden-fresh tomato. Early Girl is a longtime favorite, Bush Early Girl produces more fruit on a compact plant, and New Girl produces bigger few of the many others to consider. Check the catalog description or plant tag for the number of days to harvest. Select plants with the growth habit that best works with your garden space and gardening style. Determinate tomatoes are perfect for small space gardens and containers. They grow a certain height, stop growing, and produce their fruit over a relatively short time. fruit and has better dis- S©6 MV6TS ease resistance. Glacier, ^ * Alaska, and Juliet are a P a 9 e 1 N 3 id -L 1 d A IAI * V 1 3 id 3 A 3 N V 3 3 1 * id 3 1 d V IAI O id V 3 id V V S V N U V a V A a ■ s N 3 A V id a v o 3 d O d 3 N 3 S i 3 1 0 1 1 0 H id 1 1 a O 3 IAI 0 S id 3 H 1 3 1 N i IAI a V H 3 id n i n H 1 3 id O S S N id 3 a i 0 S 3 1 1 id n i V O 1 S V s n I/M I V O M 1 Ms d 3 1 H ■ s N V X 3 1 a V i V N 1 O V s 1 3 1 A 1 3 N O s id V 3 id ' N AA O 1 d 3 a V 9 IAI 3 H ' 1 3 V 3 Dave Says (Celebrate and Give With a Plan in Place) Dear Dave, My wife and I have always accepted the fact that we’d have a mountain of debt to pay off after the holidays. Having to deal with it all seemed more frustrat ing this year than ever before. Can you tell us how to make it through the next Thanksgiving and Christmas without having to pay off so much debt? Brady Dear Brady, Giving is a wonderful thing if your intentions, and your finances, are in the right place. But gener osity isn’t meant to be stressful to you or your bank ac count. It’s all too easy to try to justify overspend ing during the holiday season, because so many things you do are for family and friends. Still, you shouldn’t let yourself become trapped by the shopping craze or overspending just because everyone else is doing it. Give with the right intentions, and give with a financial plan in place ahead of time that doesn’t include debt. Thanksgiving is always on the fourth Thursday of November, right? And Christmas always falls on Decem ber 25th. The holidays don’t come as a surprise to anyone, so don’t wait until November, then act shocked that it’s all just around the corner. Jump on things right now, and start setting aside a little in your budget each month throughout the year for the holiday season. Sit down with your wife, and decide togeth er how much you can put aside each month for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Once you agree on an amount, make a list, check it twice and stick to it. It’s easy to find some thing in the mall you just have to buy for someone. And that’s where problems start. So, include amounts you’re going to spend on each per son, each charity, or each event. It’s all just common sense. But it’s up to you and your wife—togeth er—to decide to live on a budget and give every single dollar a job. You can do this, Brady. Make it happen! —Dave * Dave Ramsey is an eight-time national best selling author, personal finance expert and host of The Ramsey Show. He has appeared on Good Morning Ameri ca, CBS This Morning, Today, Fox News, CNN, Fox Business and many more. Since 1992, Dave has helped people take control of their money, build wealth and en hance their lives. He also serves as CEO for Ramsey Solutions. Happy Birthday to: February 1: Buddy Rainey, Taylor Freeman, Michael Daniels, Alan Pace, Courtney Mo reland, Laura Scott, Debbie Brock, Diane Bowles; February 2: Sam Futch, Coast A. Da vis, Bobby T. Roberts, Linda Watson, Barbara Urtchok, Wendell Grace, Bill Meshanko, Chris Miller, Madison Wilcox, Kaleb Hall, Irene Tabor, Haily Moreland, Amber Statham, Emily R. Lindler, Brent Goodson, Missy Paige, Steve Hubbs, Eddie Cowart, Jacqueline M. Hardison, Stephen Gross; February 3: Allison Hancock, Rhonda Butler, Benny VanDevender, Mandy Basko, Robert J. Lange, Jr. , Sandy Gregors, Scott Denham, Lisa Meritt, Tim Pierce, Michael Davis, Lindsay Majeski, Burt Ferrell, Rickey A. Gadd, Derrick Sheffield, Rob Williams; Febru ary 4: Madison Gaines, Sarah Nalley, Miranda Glore, Bobbie Hudson, James Scharnikow, James Johnson, Daniel W. Roberts Sr. , Mac Davis, Keith Barbee, Shirley Williams; Febru ary 5: LeeAnn Hunt, Bubba Reames, Victor Cannon, Christie Guy, Carly Hall, Autumn McSwain, Morgan Gatlin, Megan Moshell, Eric Soto, Sarah Landon, Ted Bentley, Tim Knight, Billy Breeden, Dorothy Olene Curtis, William Whittle, Judy Hood, Kari Black, Joe Mercer, Tim Knight; February 6: Aubree Cross, Tyler Anglin, Ayden Jowers, Mindy Thigpen, C.R. Taylor, Dylan Spence, Michael Antonio Jr. , Amy Rogers, Kristen Coxwell, Jay Sudduth, Lewis Jerome Philips; February 7: Sharon Williams, Geraldine Jenkins, Mindy Phagan, Nelda Owens, Carol Clements, Forrest Gosa Jr. , Kaleb Akins, Hoppy Hopkins, Sonya Horne, Vertis Marchant Happy Anniversary To: February 1: Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Owens, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Somers; February 2: Mr. and Mrs. Bud Smallwood, Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Greg Benson, Mr. and Mrs. Art Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Butt, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Middlebrooks; February 3: Mr. and Mrs. Carl Croft; February 4: Mr. and Mrs. John Carmo- dy, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wiley; February 5: Mr. and Mrs. Bubber Herrington, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Brooks; February 7: Mr. and Mrs. Larry Richardson
