Patio Garden - Update

The plants outgrew the small pots that my parents had them and it was high time to clean the patio.My charm can only help to a limit! (for more details, read this) Leaving tulsi, mint, table rose and one of the tomato plant that was in the biggest pot all other plants were uprooted from their pots and found their way to the trash. Now the patio looks much healthier compared to last week as there were more dying, withered plants than the good ones.
When dad & aya picked up different varieties of tomato plants from the nursery 2 months ago they didn't even bother to look up at the small tag present in each pot that has details about the plant. To them all tomatoes are the usual big ones that are used in cooking (like naathu thakkali or bangalore thakkali). That is the case probably in Chennai or in Karaikudi :) Only when tomatoes started coming up, to their surprise they found out that one of the plant was salad tomatoes. And only that plant was thriving with lot of tomatoes. They got 4 zip-log bags full of salad tomatoes, roughly 4 lbs!

Mom will get angry if you ask her to have salad but dad is not like that. He eats salads now and then in Mcdonalds or in Chick-fill-a but even then salad tomatoes comes last in his choice of preferred salad items. Dad even tried making a salad with cucumbers & home grown tomatoes but he couldn't have it more than once. Aya didn't want to mash the small tomatoes and use them in cooking as she thought that will make the cute salad tomatoes look like the big naathu thakkalis. I think she wanted somebody to have them in their salads as it was intended to :)

When Jen aunt stayed in our place for a night while driving to NY, parents gave her one zip-log full of salad tomatoes to pass it to periappa. He told them that the tomatoes were tasty and he added them in many of his salads. Dad took the remaining tomatoes to his workplace and left them in the kitchen. Everything disappeared in an hour and few people even thanked him for the delicious tomatoes. I have to remind the adults next summer to buy the correct variety of tomato!!!