Tomatoes Tomatoes Tomatoes

Back when the critters ate all my plants,  I gave up on gardening.  It was too depressing.  However, I ended up with a "feral garden",  one filled with volunteer tomato plants growing wildly all over the place, intertwined, on top of one another, so thick that I really had a hard time harvesting them,  though I have been doing that for weeks now.

Certainly, there have been more tomatoes than I could possibly use.  My most recent venture was yellow tomato preserves, a sweet concoction.  Before that,  there was tomato chutney, a hot dish.   And of course, there have been tomatoes in salads, BLT's,  and fried green tomatoes, to name just a few of the many tomato creations that have graced our table.

But I have grown tired of it, so yesterday, I ripped out most of the tomato plants from the garden.  You can see the remains.   I'll just leave those there,  even though I know that tomato plants will fill up the garden all by themselves.   However, I DO plan to have a fence installed so that I can have a real garden next spring.

Actually, now that I think about that we plan to be traveling all next summer, so there won't be much point in planting a garden, as I will not be here to tend to it.  So I guess,  I can postpone the fence for the year after that.

 Boy, am I planning ahead.

I have a particular vision of a lovely garden in my head, which has yet to be actualized.   But I'm confident I'll live to see it!