I grew tomatoes, I ate them, and I feel fine!!!! Fine!!

When Ilene wrote about the tomato salmonella scare and about growing our own — in a pot, no less — I didn't know that she shot the photograph in her post using our very own Sweet 100 tomato plant as the model.

Well, I ate the first two tomatoes from the plant tonight, and they were extremely delicious.

Sweet and perfect. Perfect in a way that no store-bought tomato can be. Especially because it's hard to find them due to the salmonella issue. (Hopefully "the authorities," whoever they may be, will track down the offending tomatoes, tamp down the hysteria and get the now-in-season fruit back on the shelves, especially romas).

I grew a Sweet 100 plant a number of years back, but I don't remember the tomatoes being this good.

We got this plant as a seedling at the Tomatomania event a few months back.

Part of the secret is my homegrown compost blend. Here's how I make it:

• Throw old kitchen scraps, yard waste (leaves, grass, no Whitman), leftover everything into a can.
• Wait until it rots to hell
• Mix in liberally (not conservatively) with dirt
• Make sure plant has a giant saucer under it, because the water that leaks out is extremely disgusting — but nutrient rich!