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Any gardener growing tomatoes should also grow basil. You can create a wonderful summer salad with sliced tomatoes garnished with a leaf of basil and dressed in a balsamic vinaigrette.

BALSAMIC VINAIGRETTE

2 TABLESPOONS OLIVE OIL
6 TABLESPOONS BALSAMIC VINEGAR
SALT AND FRESHLY GROUND PEPPER, TO TASTE.

• Pour vinegar into a small bowl.
• Drizzle the olive oil into the vinegar while whisking continuously.
  You are creating an emulsion of oil and vinegar which will have a creamy consistency.
• Add salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste.

Towers in the garden are created from bamboo poles lashed together at the top and strung with a garden twine. These towers will hold the plants of grape and best girl tomato plants.
This is a lesson in letting your tomatoes set fruit while it is too cold. This tomato is still tasty to eat, but suffers from a "blight" called cat face.
This tomato is on the same plant but bloomed much later when the temps were higher. Much more appealing, no?

A pumpkin vine.

A tower of pole beans.

Leaves from the pole beans growing in my garden.