Thursday, September 11, 2008

Mama the Tomato Queen

I recently picked back up again a book I've been reading called Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver. It is a book about a woman and her family living only off of locally grown food for one year. In the chapter I just finished, her daughter refers to her as "Mama the Tomato Queen." The author planted 50 tomato plants in her garden that season, about the same number we planted ourselves. I know now why her daughter called her such. Zach and I picked what seemed like 20+ pounds of tomatoes this weekend. Man! And there are probably that many more to pick this week. We hope to give away some of the next batch to a local shelter / food pantry.

Up next: Milo Fall Planting.

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