When I was picking tomatoes this morning I was wondering if someone actually had trouble growing cherry tomatoes? I was all ready to right about how I couldn’t believe that someone would actually need to go to the Web to find out how to grow them. How I planted mine was to take some leftover plants and shove them in the ground under the windmill and see what happened. I was also going to comment that there is no easier plant to grow than the cherry tomato. If you completely ignore the plant, it’ll still give you a like a billion tomatoes … just because it can! So when I searched to see how many results there was for people who needed this type of help there was 988,000 different pages to view. Are you kidding? How easy can this be? But then I started to think on the last thing that I looked up for myself and Slick and it was ‘How to catch a gopher’. There was 1,860,000 different pages for those challenged in this area. Yup that’s right. The first ones are titled as Basic instructions. So it made me think. Even though you might see a project as being the easiest and most basic thing in the whole world (growing cherry tomatoes) others might be out there trapping gophers and laughing at the websites that explain those basics!
Cherry tomatoes picked from under the windmill this morning
I spent the morning picking these tomatoes and had no idea on what to do with them. I called the local orchard to see if she would want to buy them. She said that tomatoes are too much of a risk because they can go bad so fast. I really don’t want to take them to a farmers market because in some towns it costs up to $25 to just put up a table. I’m pretty sure there would go my profit. So I’m heading to Decorah to go out for supper with some girls and along the way, I plan on surprising people with a bags of tomatoes for them.
Our water heater is acting really funky this morning, well it’s not working at all. I called the plumbers and they said they would be here sometime today. Since I’m going out tonight, I didn’t want to get all full of paint if I couldn’t take a shower so I’m spending the day catching up on things in the house. It sure is a pain to boil the water on the stove to take a bath though and I wish they would have fixed it by now. Oh well.
Getting ready for a bath and boiling the water
glad to see someone is getting tomatoes. this has been an awful year for them in my neck of the woods. same with the apple trees.
My cherry tomatoes where prolific this year too. I dried mine in the food dehydrator and will use them as tomato past this winter.
That’s a great idea! I have a dehydrator and am going to start the tomatoes tomorrow in it. Thanks for the tip