Anderson farm ... home of the $75 tomato. Self watering flower pot, check. Organic growing soil and fertilizer, check. Heirloom pineapple tomato plant seedling and german johnson tomato plant seedling, check. Evil, ravenous, veggie feeding, flying squirrels taking out all but one perfect specimen from our first round of 2009 tomatos, double check. Where's the red rider bbgun when you really need it? With a leavenworth prison style tomato cage now shielding our crop the cost per tomato will hopefully drop ... i'm looking at a dozen or so little green tomatos right now in various stages of maturity. And for now we'll enjoy the perfect summer flavor of the one lucky tomato that made it. The thing must've weighed a pound before slicing and held more moisture than any tomato I've ever seen. We paired it up with basil grown from seed also in the back yard (apparently squirrels don't have a taste for this) and some tasty mozzarella de bufala ... perfection.
Our next batch of red fruit goes into an olive oil soaked mess of country bruschetta. oh yes, feed on.
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