Of the tomato variety that is. After watching the movie, Food Inc., I started thinking about artificial foods and sweeteners and all that lovely stuff. And nothing beats being able to grow your own food. But a girl’s gotta make a living so I am not hanging up my sensible work heels for a pair of coveralls quite yet. Even though I believe there are several people that read this blog that have photo proof that I did go through a coverall-wearing stage.

So I have come up with a different experiment. Summer is coming up and my front porch is normally a planting disaster. It is sunny a majority of the day so the only things that survive are cacti and lizards, and I think maybe tomato plants. So I am growing tomato plants on my front porch, in containers. I bought them all at the local feed store. I know! Southern California, and I said Feed Store? Well, maybe one of these times, you and I can have a little visit to the local feed store.

The Feed Store was selling heirloom tomato plants for $0.99 each. And I definitely wanted to try out heirloom tomatoes. Figured it is a bit different from The Home Depot variety and there are no photos, so I have no clue what will show up on these vines. Tomato-Vine Kid, anybody? Anyways, for the undoctrinated, heirloom tomatoes are non-hybrid tomatoes. So the tomato that I am growing today, could be a direct descendent of a tomato that someone grew during the 1920’s or 1950’s or 1980’s with really cool neon pink leg warmers that have silver sparkles that…okay! I am back with you.

So presenting to you…The Tomato Plants of Summer 2010…

I planted six different tomato plants on my porch. They have names like Pompeii V, Hillbilly, Bonny’s Best and my personal favorite, Bloody Butcher.

Home-grown tomatoes are some of the best. So let’s see if I actually get to experience the fruits of my labor.

Grow Your Own,

Lynne with an E…xperiment