Tomato Pride!!!

 Introduction:

Maribel, my neighbor. She has lived in the neighborhood as long as we have.

I have always loved to garden and can't remember not growing something. Maribel - not.

She grew up in NYC then moved to Miami. The house across from us is the first house she has lived in. As an apartment person she never had the ability to grow flowers or veggies. Then a pushy old lady told her all about gardening.

She started out a few years ago redesigning the front of her house. She drew the design and from there it was no stopping her.

All the plants she personally picked out and did a wonderful job.

It looked great but it needed some color. Maribel picked up LOTS of hanging baskets and placed them around the newly designed yard.  It looked nice but the baskets were on the ground. Old lady mentions maybe she should look into Shepard hooks. Her hubby went on Amazon and bought her a bunch of hooks and her house looks like something out of house beautiful. 

She decided we wanted to try growing veggies. I knew she could but she wasn't so sure especially after her banana tree was demolished by some animal.

The tomato plants are babied. She takes them out only between the house of 12 to 4. After their few hours in the sun it's back in the porch where they are secure from critters who would love to taste test them.

I was honored to be given the very first RED tomato she grew❤

This was SO GOOD! Memories of summer back home on Long Island.