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Article: Summer in the tomato field.(THE HOME FORUM)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 27, 2007
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Byline: Alice Gilmore Alusic
There is no choice; when tomatoes come into season, they must be picked. They especially had to be picked that summer because customers were stopping at Daddy's roadside stand to buy them. Everybody big enough had to help.
We three older children routinely harvested lettuce, carrots, peas, strawberries, string beans the cat had half chewed off the plants, and potatoes Daddy gently tined up out of the soil for us to pick up.
But the year Daddy ambitiously planted 700 tomato plants, picking tomatoes came to outrank everything else.
Tomato picking even followed me into eighth grade in September, creating an ...