Too Many Tomatoes!

By Kira Hamman

It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for - the plants you painstakingly nurtured through needy infancy and difficult adolescence are coming to maturity and producing red, ripe tomatoes.

Pounds of them.

Pounds, and pounds, and pounds of them.

You’re eating tomatoes at every meal, canning and freezing as much as humanly possible, and still they keep coming.

What’s a tomato gardener to do?

1. Keep eating! Remember the dark days of winter, when a garden fresh tomato is but a distant memory, and have just a few more. You’ll be glad you did.

2. Feed your friends. Speaking as someone who went through a gardenless period a while back, I can tell you that they’ll be grateful.

3. Leave the best ones on Read the rest of this entry »