I will eat the cow and curse the blight.

[JoyeAustin]

Would you like to see the damage an unruly cow named Ruly and a heavily wet summer can do to a tomato garden?

Warning: graphic scenes of a vegetative massacree ahead.

First, the damn cow.

Ruly has escaped twice over the past week, and both times he went to my tomato garden and trampled around, doing considerable damage and carnage to the plants themselves. Holy fricken hell, I am going to kick that cow's ASS! were my thoughts when I saw his night's work the following day.

When I planted this bed, I had about a dozen gorgeous, healthy, thriving plants. I had heirloom varieties, and varieties specifically for canning and sauces. We were expecting a bountiful harvest of happy tomato bliss.

Along came Ruly, the maddening, constantly escaping bull.

Now, the blight.

Despite the havoc that Ruly wrought, we still had loads of fat green fruit on the branches of the plants and we were hopeful that they would ripen up for us. Today I went out to harvest what I could. I was aghast to discover that up to 95% of the entire crop of tomatoes are rotting away on the vine. Green, red, on the ground, off the ground--rotting with black spot. I was horrified and really, really pissed off.

So out of all of my beautiful tomatoes, this is all I've got.

Perhaps this seems like a silly thing to be all mad about, but that's how I roll.

I won't really eat the stupid cow. I won't really curse anything. But, I am thinking of taking all those rotten tomatoes and pelting him in the backside with them.

[MemaSu]

Aug. 25, 2009 at 7:07 PM

And, yes, she will eat the cow, as his destiny is our freezer! Very disappointed to not be making vats of wonderful sauce!

[clarewillow]

Aug. 25, 2009 at 7:12 PM

Pelt away I say! That Ruly is something else....first your poor RV...now the tomatoes....what's next?

[cecilmansmom]

Aug. 25, 2009 at 7:13 PM

hamburgers anyone

[KTMOM]

Aug. 25, 2009 at 7:15 PM

I will come help thee pelt the naughty cow with maters.  :(  So sorry..

[MythicMMM]

Aug. 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM

Aww Joye, I weep for you and your tomatoes. I know how wonderful it is to grow them and eat them is beyond words. This would have upset me too. (I'm going to blame the sappiness on being pregnant, yup)

[DestMasters]

Aug. 25, 2009 at 9:04 PM

Ah yes, I do believe that pelting should ensue at once.  Should he turn around to protest said pelting, he should be pelted between his eyes.

[Guinhyvar]

Aug. 25, 2009 at 9:52 PM

Bummer, dude. All I have to say is, clearly you dissed a bull in some past life, and karma caught up in the form of Ruly.

I'm sorry about your tomatoes. That really sucks.

[aurorabunny]

Aug. 25, 2009 at 9:54 PM

Wow..the gardener in me just flinched hardcore. 

That bull is an ASSHOLE.

[irishcoffee]

Aug. 25, 2009 at 10:27 PM

Cow Tipping

[MelanieLouise]

Aug. 25, 2009 at 11:55 PM

Cow tipping indeed. DO IT. Then you can eat him.