If it's late July, it's time for Brandon Fox's annual tale of tomatoes. This time it appears in the August issue of Richmond Magazine, as Brandon has left Style Weekly (where she reviewed restaurants and penned periodic pieces for Belle) to become the editor of Richmond Magazine's Home edition. Just to keep things confusing, Brandon will sometimes show up on her own Brandon Eats site to kvetch about food, gardens and the politics of eating.
In her Richmond Magazine piece, I became the foil to what appears to be an amazing summer for tomato growers everywhere:
In Buttermilk & Molasses blogger John Sarvay's garden, the tomatoes are "doing great -- 8 feet tall and loaded with fruit." Tragically, his yard is infested with tomato-loving wildlife. "As far as harvesting, the [expletive deleted] squirrels have eaten every single close-to-being ripe tomato, so we've gotten nothing."
Unlike PharrOut/RVANews' Scott Pharr who has taken to mocking me on Twitter as he harvests his summer crop:
Tomato Harvest (@sarvay please ignore) http://yfrog.com/5echlj
