You say tomato... I say tomato

In May Justin and I took a trip to Twin Falls to visit his brother. While we were there we (Mom and Jessica) went with Lacey to her work. She is a grower at a garden. We all piled onto a little cart and drove around the gardens closing windows and stuff like that. At one part there were a whole ton of plants that they were going to throw away because they were “to big”. We soon realized that we could take these home with us. We filled the cart with a wide array of plants and finished up. The car was full of flowers. We had them in the trunk, the dashboard, and the back window. We even had to hold a few on our laps. We took them back and divided them up. I ended up getting two tomato plants, snapdragons, pansies and alyssum, (that’s the really good smelling stuff).
The plants sat on our back step in Pocatello for a month till we moved. They then sat on our front porch here for another month or so. All the plants were getting kind of sad looking. Finally one weekend we went and bought pots and soil, and then I planted them. I put a tomato plant in the middle of each pot, and then the snapdragons and pansies around them, filling in the extra space with the alyssum. I was a little skeptical if they would grow but wanted to try. The flowers died off while it was hot, but have come back up now that it’s cooler. I now have a ton of tomatoes. The tomato plants have gotten huge and have taken up half of our walkway. They hang over the sides of the porch. Every day or so I pull off a handful of tomatoes and eat them. We pinched off all the buds a few weeks ago thinking it was getting cold and they wouldn’t make it, but we have more buds now. It will be really nice to see how they end up. I am really looking forward to next year and hope to have a small garden and lots of vegetables!