Gigantor

 Look at this tomato.

It's HUGE!

This is the biggest tomato I have ever grown. I named him Gigantor (the last one I grew I named Mongo but this one is bigger).  Why I've assigned a gender to an inanimate piece of fruit I don't know.

Here it is by my iphone for a little perspective (I only have an iphone so I can have a phone with me while I run and still listen to music.  Don't judge me.  I also will not be getting the iphone 5.  There I redeemed myself.)

It is over 4 inches wide!

And bigger than the palm of my hand.

Then I cut into it.  I was canning tomato sauce and needed it to reach the 10lbs of tomatoes needed for the recipe.  But look at those colors.  They are stunning.

This is why I really try to grow as many vegetables as possible during the summer.  I feel so much better about eating them.  They weren't picked when they were green and shipped half way across the country (or the world.  I wouldn't put it past China to try and infiltrate the tomato market!).  



I'm also proud of myself , if you couldn't tell :)  I grew a big tomato for the first time ever!  Because growing this tomato is totally my doing and not the result of years of cross germination and whatever those farmers and biologists do . . .