The tomatoes are growing great!!!  These cages are 6 feet tall, and the tomato plants are all the way to the top.  And there are lots of flowers set.  Some even have tomatoes set.  My friends in Virginia used to celebrate the Fourth of July with BLTs, with the tomatoes from their garden.  Our growing season is a little behind theirs.  We generally start harvesting tomatoes the middle of July.  And are swimming in them by the middle of August.  Hey, we love it.

 

We have decided to blanch and freeze our tomatoes this year, and can them when the weather is cooler.  That way we aren't heating up the kitchen in the middle of summer, and running the AC to death.  We froze some last summer, and made our tomato sauce in October when we could open the windows.  Made good sense, so we will change our canning process to go with the weather.  

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!