Just Buy the Tomatoes

Russ let me know that my tomato plants have suffered catastrophically from weeks of heat. If it is too hot the plants won’t fruit, but more than not just getting tomatoes, my plants are suffering.

I am going to have to put them out of their misery this weekend. I might cut some way back and see if they can recover, but the idea of getting tomatoes from them seems futile.

With that news from Russ, I stopped at a farm stand on the way home from the beach today. Beautiful tomatoes for $2.75 for slicing and eating. Tomato pie is in the future. Even better was the box of Roma tomatoes for $25. I will be making sauce and soup and dried tomatoes this weekend.

Gardening is heart breaking. Supporting a local farmer is actually cheaper than trying to grow things and fail.

It’s too hot to spend a lot of time in the garden. Being in an air conditioned kitchen processing vegetables someone else grew is fine with me. At least I am not worrying about fighting the squirrels.