Archive: July 18, 2014 - Gary Borders

One of The Best Things About Summer: Tomatoes

There’s only two things that money can’t buy, and that’s true love and home-grown tomatoes. Guy Clark |———| OK, technically you can buy homegrown tomatoes this time of year from vegetable stands alongside the highway. But unless one is utterly friendless or a hermit, right about now tomato-growing friends, acquaintances and kinfolk begin bombarding everybody they know with tomatoes. That is one of the few redeeming features of an East Texas summer, in my humble estimation. The weather usually is ridiculously humid and hot, and it generally stays that way until late September. But at least...

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