My friend Janice Kaltenbach sent me a poster recently that read: Growing tomatoes is the best way to devote three months of your life in order to save $2.17.
Unfortunately, how true it is!
We grow tomatoes each year in our various gardens, along with some cukes, peppers, squash, lettuce, beans, peas and the like. But we spend a fortune at Lowe’s each spring on garden soils, seeds, fertilizers, tomato stakes, trellises, Sevin Dust, rabbit repellant and other garden essentials. At the end of the day, our tomatoes end up costing us about $50 a pound. If we were smart, we would pocket our garden budget, go to the Farmer’s Market every Saturday morning, and buy our fresh produce there and let them worry about rabbits and droughts.
But…..there is nothing like plucking that first juicy, red-ripe tomato from your own vines, slicing it, and lathering up a couple pieces of Wonder Bread with mayonnaise, adding a crisp piece of lettuce and a couple strips of Wright’s bacon.
If we saved $2.17, all the better.