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Tomatoes

These are my tomatoes. My tomatoes that I grew myself, yes, with my own hands and my own dirt. These are just a few of my tomatoes, in fact. There have been 6 or 7 before them, and there are 10 or 12 still on the plant ripening. These I just picked today, though, and they’ll spend the next couple days perched on the back of my stove waiting to be eaten.

There’s nothing that compares to the taste of a fresh tomato right out of your own garden. One you know has never been sprayed with chemicals of any kind or dipped in wax like they do with the ones at the grocery store. One you’ve watched grow from a little yellow blossom on the tomato plant.

They taste so much better than anything you can buy.