A hundred of tomatoes!!!

This summer Ben and I planted a bunch of random plants. I think it was fava beans, tomatoes, kale, swiss chard, mustard greens, carrots, and spinach. Tragically, the spinach died at the beginning of the summer and the mustard greens never got past sprouts. Ben claims this was because Jake stepped on them at the graduation party. Today some guys came over and trimmed all the bushes and pulled out all the weeds in our backyard. Apparently they didn't realize that the carrots, kale, and swiss chard were actually not weeds, because when we went out this afternoon they were gone. Actually I suppose the carrots are still under the dirt somewhere, but the tops are gone so I'd have to dig them out. The fava beans did really great though, and earlier this summer I made this awesome fava bean crostini thing out of them. It was really good! I'd never even had fava beans before but Ben grew them in his garden at school and talks about them all the time, so I thought we'd plant some. The growingest thing we've had though is the tomatoes!!! I only planted one tomato plant, an heirloom... what was it... oh yeah brandywine. I planted them in the same place our landlords said they put tomatoes last year. Apparently some tomatoes must have fallen off and rotted over there or something, because all of a sudden one day we had like 10 tomato plants growing. We have some romas, and some little yellow pear shaped ones, and some cherry tomatoes, and the brandywine tomatoes. A couple days ago I told Ben to go see if any of them were red yet, and he came running in and said "MOM!! Come outside you gotta see this! There are a hundred of tomatoes!!!"
I didn't bother putting any little cages or anything around all the tomatoes. The one plant that I planted I tied to the fence, but the rest I just let go crazy. So we have a crazy tomato jungle, with a hundred of tomatoes. Today we picked the first ripe ones (okay, the roma wasn't actually ripe but Ben picked it anyway...) and I took some pictures of Ben being very excited about his tomatoes.

Ben...


Almost-ripe Brandywine tomato



Crazy tomato jungle.