When I was in grad school, we had a little cottage in the country. We put in a fairly goodsized garden, begged a giant garbage pail of manure from a horsefarm nearby and put in tomatoes, corn, beans, carrots, cucumbers, eggplant. We had such an enormous crop of everything (except corn which we learned later can't be planted in one long row but needs to x-fertilize) that by the end of the season we were standing out there with friends drinking beer and throwing tomatoes at trees. We couldn't give the excess away fast enough.
The tomatoes were incredible. Sometimes for lunch, I would go out with a shaker of garlic salt, take one off the vine, and stand there eating the warm fruit and contemplating how simple life could be.
No chemicals, no bug sprays. All natural. If I, who can can suck the chlorophyl from the leaves of a thriving plant by walking by it too closely, could achieve this, then
why are tomatoes so damn expensive?? |
