THE Tomato

This season, I planted beefsteak tomatoes, brandywine tomatoes, plum tomatoes, and cherry tomatoes. I began them all inside. Once I moved them outside to my garden, we had some bad weather, and I had to replant some of them from seed, directly into the soil.

Before the weather got too hot, I only managed to get one of the two larger varieties to fruit and only ONE at that. I watched it constantly to make sure that nothing bothered it, put extra fencing around it, and generally fretted over its existance for the past six or so weeks.

Finally, it was red enough to pick. I gave it a special place in the house while I allowed it to ripen a bit more.

Have I gone too far?

I warned the men to leave it alone, worried that one of the midnight kitchen raids might leave me with one less tomato.

Tonight, we are going to see how THE tomato is. I'll serve it sliced with basil from my garden and crumbled feta (storebought...did you know that you can fairly easily make homemade feta???). I hope it is as yummy as it is beautiful :0)