Home Grown Tomatoes

There is nothing quite like a fresh tomato that one grows themselves, so one summer I decided I was going to till up some land at my parents summer home and grow tomatoes. I wanted to make sure that I had enough plants so i started about eighty plants from seed and then bought another forty plants at the farmer's market. Apparently my dad didn't think this would be enough because when I made the two hour drive to their summer place he had another eighty plants that he got from a neighbor. We didn't want to waste any so I tilled enough ground to plant them all. The country around where they lived had a lot of deer and a lot of ground hogs and other creatures that would have been only too glad to eat our tomatoes so I put an electric fence around the entire plot. I had wires at six inches, twelve inches, eighteen inches, two feet, four feet, and six feet. There was no animal in the county that could get under or over that fence! Then I installed a sprinkler to irrigate the entire tomato patch, and fertilized it all with tomato boomer. Needless to say, not a single one of those nearly two hundred plants died, and all of them grew and produced prolifically. We were eating tomatoes three times a day and giving away tomatoes as fast as we could and still couldn't keep up. But for once in my life I could say I had all I wanted of fresh home-grown tomatoes that year!