Marilynne's World

My husband, of greenhouse fame planted something like 37 tomato plants this year.  Since he’s a good gardener, that means we have lots and lots of tomatoes.  This is my gardener husband’s favorite time of year.

Everywhere he goes he takes tomatoes.  He is greeted with smiles and happiness because almost everyone he meets loves getting his fresh from the garden tomatoes.   Today he took with him enough tomatoes for the people he plays Pan with and enough cucumbers that I’m not going to have to eat them all.  He grows the cucumbers for me.

There is something wonderful about a tomato grown in a home garden.  It probably has something to do with being picked red and delicious just before you eat it.  Maybe with great slabs of tomato on BLT (bacon, lettuce, and tomato) sandwiches.  Maybe just eating one directly from the vine.

In addition to the big tomatoes, he grows the little ones for me.  Fat round cherry tomatoes, pear shaped yellow ones, and who knows what else?  Don’t ask me.  I just eat them.

I’m sorry, but you’ll just have to visualize his tomatoes.  The spammers are still after me and they’re tagging my photos.

I hope you have a generous tomato farmer in your neck of the woods.

Marilynne