Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Tomatoes

A good pick.


We had a good year for tomatoes. That's probably partly due to the fact that we planted two dozen plants, and got them in relatively early. Sunny weather helped, too. Many gardeneres I talked to struggled with their tomatoes, this year, though, so I'm not sure why we got lucky. But I'm not questioning it. There's nothing better than fresh tomato sandwiches and I ate them all summer, often with basil leaves for lettuce. We had far too many cherry tomatoes and gave away as many as we could. I skipped the salsa this year and canned tomato sauce. When January rolls around, I hope I can call up the smell-memory of these plants and let it carry me through to another spring.