Phil’s day off

Phil took Friday off which is great to have him here! He shared a story today about the tomato plant I gave him for his birthday or for his house. It was an orange grape or pear tomato plant. He nursed that plant all summer on his porch and enjoyed his first farming adventure. However, with the heat of the summer, it completely wilted and dried up one week when here was up here in Ysrdley. He almost gave up on it after the first harvest, which he claimed the tomatoes were delicious. But “Lazarus”resurrected from the dead with new sprouts and flowers, which turned into more tomatoes! These were all learning lessons on how tomatoes blossom from flower buds to a fruit. He continued to harvest these small tomatoes until this week when he came home and found his plant had been blown off the porch down the steps to the ground below with most of its branches broken off. What a journey for one poor plant! At least Phil was able to collect the last of the tomatoes for one last salad!