The tomatoes that I grew in my tiny backyard are very red and very small.

And that would be OK except the skins are tough, and I hate tough skins on tomatoes.

Moreover, the flavor is not really any better than what I can get from the tomatoes I buy on 9th Street.

So why did I go to all that trouble to grow my own?

I don’t know if the problem is the way I tended them or the soil I grew them in or the hot tropical Philadelphia sun or what? 

The variety of tomato? They are beefsteak tomatoes. I thought they ought to be bigger and, well, beefier.

Not sure if I’ll go to all the trouble again.

Next year I might just call the whole thing off.