Gardening in My Roots, tomato season for some

I ate one of my very few ripe tomatoes last night. Why is it that my home-grown tomatoes taste so much better than anyone else's home-grown tomatoes?



Also I harvested my sole kohlrabi plant. It's beautiful.












Guess I can console my lack of tomato success with sunflowers and tons of okra, not only where I planted it but pretty much all over--it's gone feral.  See the sunflowers turning to watch the setting sun: