Where Do These Beasts Come From?

I talked before about our Topsy Turvy, upside down tomato planters. We're actually very happy with them so far.

The big tomatoes are coming in hot and heavy and the cherry tomatoes are ripening quickly. As a matter of fact, we've already picked some.



But these aren't the beasts I'm referencing in the title. The beasts I'm talking about seem to come out of nowhere. We haven't had tomatoes in years. And these guys are way too big to crawl here from a farmer's field. Somebody please enlighten me. Where do they come from because I want to send them back home. They are wayyyyy ugly:

Topsy Turvy

You've seen the advertisements on TV right? The upside down tomato and other vegetables planter? It always looked pretty bizarre to me but we've tried planting a couple of tomato plants in the backyard and we've never had much success. Usually about time we get one or two ripe ones, the plant is falling down and any tomatoes we might have gotten are somewhere in there on the ground and we just kind of get bored with the whole project. So the Topsy Turvy seemed liked something we should try. So we did.

We planted our tomatoes around the first of June and here's how they look now:

And look:

It really looks like we're going to have some wonderful tomatoes if we can just keep up with the watering and fertilizing. And we're quite excited.