Tomatoes

A couple days before it snowed, the air was really chilly outside. I decided to pick the tomatoes out of the garden. Okay, I have to tell about my garden for a minute. I planted this big garden full of green beans, carrots, peas, corn, tomatoes, peppers, sunflowers, herbs, rhubarb, zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins. NOTHING grew. Not even weeds!! In fact my neighbor told me that she enjoyed driving past my yard because my garden made her laugh every time. Okay, I had 5 stalks of corn that grew, three at one end of the row and two at the other end. I had a row of green beans that all popped out of the ground and then all burned up and died. I had one plant the survived and I picked 5 beans off of it. I had on cucumber plant grow and the ants ate all the leaves off it so it died. My rhubarb did good but not good to eat the first year. Some of Justyn's sunflowers grew and did pretty good, but what do I do with sunflower seeds. I know we will roast them but seriously, if only one thing was going to grow, did it have to be sunflowers? My pepper plant grew a couple of scary wilted little peppers with "spiders up the butt" according to Kate so we didn't eat them. So when I discovered that my tomato plants had hundreds of unripe tomatoes on them (we only had a couple that ripened on the vine), I decided to not let them go to waste. I froze my fingers off as I picked every one of the tomatoes and then brought them into my kitchen to let them ripen in the windows. My mom said it would work... and it is.

My only problem is that Henry thinks they are balls...

so most of them end up in the garbage. Oh well, I tried!