Bumper Crop

About a year and a half ago we got a cool patio tomato planter from Chris' parents for Christmas.  Many of you may remember Chris giving his parents a pretty hard time about it.....In fact, I believe he said "all I got for Christmas was a bag of dirt."  Well let me say that we were finally able to put that planter to good use this summer.  We planted two little tiny tomato plants in there at the beginning of the summer, and now they are two huge tomato plants and we are picking fresh tomatoes off of there nearly every day.  I have not had such good luck with tomato plants here in Colorado, but this planter has changed my opinion about growing my own plants.  Even Chris is impressed and wants to get 2 more of the planters so we can grow other things next year.  Wes and Mia are totally into it too.  They love to help take care of the growing plants.  Here are a couple of photos of our most recent harvest: