… I say, “Where the heck did these come from?”
We didn’t plant a garden this year. Didn’t know when we’d be moving and knew for sure nobody would have the time to look after it. So imagine our surprise, or not, at one day walking over the not-garden area that we hadn’t turned over into lawn or anything else, and finding a whole slew of tomato plants and a couple squash growing.
While I’d like to think the dirt in my yard is just that good, it was probably the compost that we dump in. Given the inordinate amount of tomatoes & sauce we consume on a yearly basis, it was no real surprise to us to see that once again, stuff just grew. It’s happened before. Actually, we have a free-form old compost pile in the yard – the new ones are in barrels – and it churns out one kind of plant or another every year. It’s like a present from nature seeing what comes up.
So yeah, these are the tomatoes I didn’t plant from the garden I didn’t have. I showed them to Strawberry guy – the vegetable and fruit vendor parked in the empty lot across the street – and it seems like he can sell some for me, because some of his customers have asked for green tomatoes.
That’s good, because I also have a grocery bag full of ripe tomatoes from my Mom’s garden.
WOW! You lucky lady! To think, some of us have to work our tails off top get produce like that!LOL!
wow, that is lucky! I uh planted a garden this year. And a neighbor asked the other day if I was growing a wild flower meadow in my backyard, cuz, I uh, haven’t weeded it in ummm well, all summer, lol. You must have a green thumb:)
Very cool – you practiced Natural Farming without even knowing it!
Three words: Fried Green Tomatoes.
We never planted this year either (moving, making our house habitable, and all that stuff)and ended up with 5 tomato plants, a few beans, and something else I pulled. Oh, and some green onions (which we realized by the smell when Don pulled them). They’re all in weird places along the side of the house though, and the beans got weed whacked, and the tomatoes are grossly neglected looking.
I have some ripe ones if you would like some. Same type as what you have in the basket. Was hoping to make sauce with them but can’t see me finding the time before I head to scotland on the 23rd. Heck I still need to do my beets yet and pull out my onions.
I agree. There is nothing better than fried green tomatoes. We actually had them for dinner tonight with some squash soup.
LOL – we once turned a garden into a small pasture for a herd of sheep. They LOVED the asparagus that came up every year.