I have spent years watching people buy beautiful, expensive heirloom tomatoes at the farmers market only to go home and murder them in the crisper drawer. It makes my blood boil. You wouldn’t put a fine wine in the freezer so why are you treating your produce like leftovers? I have seen it all from … Read more
I went out to the garden last July, expecting to pick enough Early Girls for a BLT. Instead, I found a crime scene. Half a plant was stripped bare. Just naked green stems and a few sad, jagged leaf stubs. No fruit, no foliage, just total devastation. If you’ve seen this in your own backyard, … Read more
I walked into my garden yesterday at 6:00 AM, coffee in hand, ready to admire the big, beautiful “Celebrity” tomato I’d been babying for three months. What did I find? A massacre. It was sitting on the soil, half-ripe, with one—just one—giant, jagged bite taken out of the side. The rest was left to rot. … Read more