So sometimes - things (so to speak) happen (so to speak) so rapidly that there is no way to keep track - i consider this "life happening".

I'm trying to figure out just now how to keep "my tomato" experience (story) as simple and succinct as possible.  ---- previous text here has been deleted - 9189.

OK - I'm still around (barely - 9189 - new moon day) and the 09 tomato growing season is coming to a close - I'll be honest this year was a failure for me, but I have learned some new ideas that I'm gonna implement next season - In particular, I plan on growing more basil - less maintenance than tomato - but I have a new plan for the tomatoes using a trellis-type system that a friend used this year successfully.  Just need to choose a location.

This could end up being a real easy way to grow your own tomatoes (plus other things like basil, which I discovered seems to do real well with tomato --- at least it seemed this way to me for this season). I'll report back what happens next season (assuming I'm still around....)

So anyhow, the great thing about tomatoes (or basil for that matter or for a whole lot of useful vegetation) is if you are careful, I think you can get them to grow in your yard year after year without having to purchase anything.  Free tomatoes basically from the earth.  This is balanced and a key concept of battery banks is:   BALANCE.