From the garden

I planted lots of tomato & jalapeno plants at the beginning of the summer. The jalapenos have done wonderfully. We've had so many jalapenos, I give them away by the bagful. The tomato plants, on the other hand, did not fare so well. They had blossoms but never actually produced fruit. In late summer I got 3-4 small green tomatoes, no bigger in diameter than a quarter.

I gave up on the tomatoes until one day A came running inside. She had small green tomatoes in her hands. She said that B walked up with them saying, "I picked strawberries in the forest."



These small tomatoes ripened to a nice bright red. Yesterday Chris made salsa, our gardening dreams come true.