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We’ve got so many tomatoes this year that they are literally dropping off their vines!
We’re having a little trouble harvesting them fast enough!
Nice problem to have, huh? At least if you are a gardener, that is!
We’ve had a wonderful and BLESSED spring’s worth of rain and (until recently) we’ve received a nice weekly dose of summer water from the skies! Perfetto! None of our tomatoes cracked; none of them came down with any disease or pests . . . we’ve had just a perfect summer’s bounty of ruby-red tomatoes!
Seriously, some of my family think that I’m just a nut-case with so many tomato plants that I plant every spring! But come winter, when all there is in the marketplace are those orange-ish, plastic,…
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