First Tomato

Summertime - garden - tomatoes.  Yes, this is what summer is all about.  Every winter we pick what will be in in it.  Bob puts it all in.  He loves his tiller.  Only problem is it makes the garden bigger.  Soon it will be half the yard.  Since we have chickens that have the run of the yard, they love the garden too.  All of the red beets have no leaves.  There are dust bowls in every row.  Flowers were eaten off pumpkin plants and they dug up the roots.  They have also taken to laying their eggs all over.  We find a new pile every day.  Bob found a nest in my tomato garden.  There were two green tomatoes on the one plant.  I told Bob to look and see if they were ripe.  When he said oh no, I knew something was wrong.  He pulled out a beautiful ripe tomato.  I went to grab it and he turned it around.  Those chickens ate it!  I was furious!  This means war.  Most of the plants now have some sort of netting around them.  Next thing that happens is there will be a big pot of soup, chicken soup!....