It's the time of year when garderners dream of picking their first vine ripened tomato, peppers, etc. It's wonderful to walk to your back yard and put togehter a meal from your garden. But I've about had it with our weather. I don't know if it's an old wives tale or not, but I've always been told that tomatoes need warm nights to ripen. If that's the case (and it seems to be), I might never get a beautiful red tomato. The tomatoes are there - teasing me on the plants - but still as green as ever. Fried green tomatoes are great, but normally reserved for mid-summer when you have tomatoes coming out of your ears. I refuse for my first tomato of the season to be fried and green. So if any of you have sunshine and warm nights, please pass them along to western PA. Thank you.
