Home Grown Tomatoes

This spring I planted a beautiful garden. The soil was rich, the foliage was lush, the vegetables were - well, what vegetables? All I got out of the garden this year was a few flowers, some dill, one eggplant, and three peppers. That's it. I planted 6 tomato plants, 3 pepper plants, 2 eggplants, and sowed 3 packets of seeds.

I decided I was going to implement my laissez faire method of gardening and pretty much just left it alone - stopped watering, stopped weeding, stopped even looking at it. I did not, however, pull anything up that was remotely still green. I kept the 2 eggplants & 5 of the tomato plants - I figured they were at least holding the soil in place so it wouldn't blow away & when they all turned brown and crispy, I'd remove them.

Well, they never turned brown and crispy. Yesterday, I decided to take a look over there, and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but tomatoes. Still small, and still green, but tomatoes.

Glory Be.

Here is the scraggly garden. It has certainly seen better days.

One tomato plant is barely even planted any more! The wind really did a number on everything & blew most of my plants over. I don't know how this thing has managed to survive.

Not only is it surviving, it has fruit.

Guy Clark said it best:

Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes

What'd life be without home grown tomatoes

There's only two things that money can't buy

That's true love and home grown tomatoes