The Tomatoes

It’s the end of July, and the tomatoes are coming in full force.

We bought eight plants this year: Roma, Big Boy, and Cherry. But there were some tomatoes left on the soil from last year, so we currently have twenty tomato plants growing. Our garden looks like one big hedge.

They overtook the entire garden. I had lettuce and onions growing, but they’re somewhere underneath the foliage. Last Fall, I planted two Black Walnuts, and they sprouted this Spring. They’re in the garden, along with the two Scarlett oak trees I pulled up last year. I had a White Oak in there, but I planted it in the backyard, and it’s doing well. I had several more plants in there, but some of them didn’t sprout.

But back to those tomatoes. We use cherry tomatoes in our salads, we will roast the Romas for salsa, and those other ones, are for the sandwiches.

Not just any kind of sandwich. A sandwich slathered in Duke’s mayonnaise, three pieces of crisp bacon, a massive leaf of lettuce, and a thick slice of fresh garden tomato.

Hallelujah!

And when we are filled to the brim with those sandwiches, we will can the rest of our tomatoes. Just in case there’s an apocalypse.

to anyone who eats (which I assume is everyone),
– Caleb