Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Local agriculture

I think I may have mentioned that Cindy and I stopped at the Plant Emporium about a week ago and bought a hanging plant for a friend of Cindy's at Griffin Tech. While we were there we found that they had a wide variety of tomato plants. I found a cherry tomato plant which was in a hanging basket and it was just covered up with tomatoes. Cindy and I looked at it closely and realized that there seemed to be about thirty or forty cherry tomatoes on the plant. When we realized that the cost of the plant was only $10.00, the tomatoes seemed to be a pretty good deal.

Recently, I have been picking the tomatoes off the plant as they turn an orange red color. Right now we have about fifteen on our window, turning a deep shade of red. There are probably about ten on the plant which will need to be picked soon. There are still quite a few green ones which will turn orange soon. There has been a recent salmonella scare in Georgia for some tomatoes which came from Florida. It is good to have some home-grown tomatoes we can use in their stead.

I could use a few extra tomato plants of such healthy status. We could start selling them on the street if we had a few more such plants. So far, the tomatoes we have been able to harvest off our two bushes have been pretty good [meaning they actually taste like something, unlike the grocery store variety].

They are always better than what you get at the grocery store. What I need now are some good Georgia peaches. And some Broadbent's bacon. Maybe I'll make a trip to the Dekalb Farmer's Market.

I would sure like to find some local fruit and vegetables and freeze them.

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