My sweet dad insists that I have tomato plants. Last year I said "No tomatoes!" All I know how to do is rot the poor things. But Joseph brought home starts from a family at church (after I'd turned down an offer of starts from the same generous family a week earlier). I refuse to care for something that will rot. The little guys sat in their yogurt cups on my kitchen counter for weeks till dad came to visit. He rescued them and put them in big pots with lots of good soil and bid them grow.
This year was a little more of the same, but we had an actual patch of dirt to fill with tomato plants. Dad put in two little tomato starts, and they GREW! We got quite the tomato crop out of those two little plants. Our next door neighbor and land lady gave us some pepper plants, so we grew salsa this year. I had to buy the garlic and onions, but it was really quite amazing to eat something that grew right next to our back door. Thanks for the tomatoes, Dad!!! They were delicious!
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ADORABLE!!! I love the pictures of J-Boy!!
That salsa looks good...can you send me the recipe we used?
I love freshly made salsa. I'm so glad to see your back, I've missed your posts. Next, year you'll have to add basil to your garden. We grew basil and cilantro this year and feel so spoiled. Fresh pesto on pasta or pizza is the best. Good luck gardening.
Your salsa looks delicious -- I want to grow my own cilantro next year! Love you all!
Hurray! I've been looking forward to a Tara update! You don't disappoint. The salsa looks tasty, and J-Boy is so cute!
Thanks for the news.
I can't garden, either. I tried corn, squash, zuchinni, cilantro, and basil. The only thing that survived was basil--after it got moldy from being in the house, I took it outside and it did fine...but it never grew into a bush like my friends' basil.
I love a salsa garden! If you plant one little basil plant with your tomatoes, you can make homemade bruchetta (sp?), too!
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