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talk about summer, the season for great tomatoes here in the N.E., this is my little heart-warming story about saving a tomato:
A couple months ago I was working in my driveway and looking up, I notice something larger than usual growing in the roof gutter that runs along the side of my house. As I look at it more closely, I realize it's a developing tomato plant! How the hell it got there is anybody's guess...either my kids tossed it there during a tomato fight last year, or a bird pooped a seed there, or a squirrel dropped it there so I wouldn't be able to eat it as a side dish to braised squirrel with wild mushrooms and onions. So I got out my ladder and scooped it out of the gutter with it's well developed root ball spreading out in the couple inches of leaf mulch in that gutter, and then planted it in my yard. I had just demolished the jungle jim in my yard so I had an especially sandy spot there, and figuring that sandy soil seems to make great Jersey tomatoes, I planted this little guy in that spot. Well this past week I finally tasted a couple of the fully ripe fruits of this agricultural adventure and I have to say, they were some of the sweetest, best tasting tomatoes I've had in a long time. I don't have a dog right now though we plan to get one soon, but we lived happily ever after.
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