Help … hey, who needs veggies???
Well, the garden at Green Hills is rewarding us in a bountiful way for all of the hard work we have been putting in. We are now officially in tomato overload … I guess we should have expected that when you plant 90 plus heirloom tomatoes in heavily fertile soil and then TLC each of them with Spray and Grow and other regular maintenance you are going to get SURPLUS. While everyone around us is complaining that their tomatoes did not do well or are still green on the vine, we are leaving ours on unsuspecting neighbor porches, ringing and RUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last Sunday we spent a very stormy afternoon at the annual family reunion for Andy’s side and we carted a HUGE box of colorful tomatoes - large and small. Red, yellow, pink, purple. “Help yourself” sign on box. Let me say, as much as I LOVE tomatoes, if I was not gardening this year and someone else had brought that box, I would have taken 5 or 6 every hour and hid them in my car until they were GONE. They were NOT moving. Maybe it was due to the competition - Andy’s dad, DC, brought in a huge box of his own and a huge box of cucumbers. End of day we were begging family to take some … organic, fresh picked, juicy, ripe … huh????????
Today I am canning salsa with the unadopted boxful and pickles with the cucumbers no one wanted. FREE. Grown by family. Step aside from the junkfood peeps and eat your veggies. Maybe these people have never known the wonders in the taste of fresh tomatoes, sliced thick, on toasted whole grain bread with a janitor on the drum size amount of real mayo. YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh well. they’ll be cursing themselves with the yucky winter crops that the local supermarkets carry for $4 a pound.
My mom would have taken all of them.
I have not golfed in 2 weeks. All of the oufits purchased, and shoes and balls AND the new custom 3 wood Andy bought me for our one year together are sitting and getting dusty. Between QVC airings, infomercial shoots and farming, kids … no time for golf. Soon, I hope.
Not back on the Q until next week. Might be sooner so check schedule on home age. Thanks for watching.
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Posted in From my heart
August 15th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Ah, how sweet it is! While I’m reading this, I’m eating a tomato sandwhich on whole grain with mayo, my lunch every day just about, in the summer! As a kid, I didn’t think you could top white bread tomato sandwhiches, but I must say, I am now hooked on whole grain. I only have four tomato plants in my backyard, but they have given me lots of great fruit. My husband will only eat them in a salad (yes, I know, he’s weird), but I am eating so many, it’s a wonder the acid hasn’t had an effect! And, sometimes, I splurge with three strips of bacon! Sounds like your garden is huge and I don’t know where you find the time. Did you and Andy get married, did I miss that? I remember you sending me a picture of him when you first re-connected. Handsome fella. Sounds like you have found what you were searching for, and hey, that’s all we humans can ask for in this life. At least we haven’t had the drought this year like it was last year, I know you still had to water, but it’s been a lot better in Maryland. Take care! Karen