Tomatoes!

John wanted to try growing something to eat this spring. We have both grown plants and flowers in our 'city life,' but neither one of us have ever planted something to eat.

John is the more 'adventurous' of the two of us, so off we went to a private garden center and came home with two container cherry tomato plants. We re-potted them into larger containers; watered them with Miracle-Gro and a few drops of "Crystal Energy," (a special treatment that makes water more "effective") and I placed a small single-terminated crystal into each pot to increase the 'goodies' found in our air and sun. A few weeks ago, we started harvesting cherry tomatoes, and boy are they good!

I cannot describe the taste... they are both sweet and a bit sour; full bodied in flavor, nothing like you buy in the stores.

My "beef" with just about anything "fresh" you buy in supermarkets is a lack of full-bodied flavor. If you have ever tasted food purchased directly from a farm, you will understand what I am talking about.

There is something vastly different about allowing a fruit or vegetable to ripen on a vine, stark or tree that brings out a complete level of taste. What we purchase in a store isn't allowed to fully ripen, and it shows in the taste.

I am usually always disappointed whenever I decide to buy fruit because it lacks full flavor. So to taste the wonderful difference of our first-grown tomatoes is lovely, and I think it is safe to assume that next Spring, we will purchase more plants, expand, and explore our newly found "farmer's thumb."

Here are a few photos of our small bounty......