There go the tomatoes...

[Rocky Raab]

My garden is small, and borders a fence with a tree the other side of it - and that's the south side. So there isn't much room or sun.

I manage to get sugar pod peas, lettuce, radishes, spinach, a few pole beans, herbs and tomatoes out of it. This year, I tried one plant each of Celebrity (my favorite), Better Boy, Red Beefsteak, Yellow Pear and Roma varieties.

I'm already eating the spinach, lettuce and radishes, and the edible pod peas are almost ready to set blossoms. Good stuff.

I usually get one or two tomatoes by mid-July, but the bulk of them don't come in until mid-August. Last year, I was still picking a few (still not frost killed) after Halloween!

When it's all done, I pull up everything, spread the summer's compost and till it in, then sow the spinach. It comes up and just bides its time under all the snow until spring, then POW!.