We've got tomatoes and garbanzo beans in our future

I should take pictures, but in lieu, we have two tomato plants in pots, plus a garbanzo bean plant that the 4-year-old started from a seed (a dry bean plucked from the ones Ilene was about to cook).

I got the two tomato plants from Tomatomania. At $4 each, they weren't exactly a bargain, but we got to soak up the atmosphere at the Tapia Brothers Farm on Havenhurst Avenue in sort-of Encino.

One of the tomato seedlings is a Sweet 100, which is almost guaranteed to produce, since the fruits are small and many in number. Even the squirrels can't eat that many. The other plant is some kind of healthy hybrid with extra lycopene in the tomatoes. We'll see how it does.

I didn't even do tomato cages because I'm lazy and cheap. I figure I'll stake pieces of the plants if and when they get to that point.

And I'd love to even get a half-dozen garbanzo beans. Fresh garbanzos? It'll be amazing.