Body freezer

So, like any self-respecting gardener, I decided that if I was going to both grow a boatload of tomatoes AND maintain a Costco membership, it was going to be necessary to acquire a chest freezer.

I trolled craigslist for AGES looking for a decent used one, but after dealing with more than one seller who refused to sell to someone who was planning on briefly putting a freezer on its side (jeez dudes, let me make my own poor life choices), we decided to buy a new one from Costco for approximately the same price as a used one. (I'm assuming they sell them so cheap so that you will buy more Costco food, which is exactly what I did.)

See, craigslist pessimists, it TOTALLY fit in Adamo's car. Jerks.

Of course, as soon as we got it home, I realized that a) the cord is really short, and b) the best place to put it also sometimes a bit... leaky. As we had some pallets lying around, I figured I'd just cut one in half, plop the freezer on top, and call it a day.

Actually a pretty good idea

I also put a pre-primed board on the front of the pallet so that it would look pretty and so that I wouldn't accidentally put my toes into what is most surely Spidertopia by now.

Maybe putting food next to toxic supplies inn't a great idea, in retrospect

It worked out for the best, though, because I was NOT prepared for how many tomatoes one roma tomato plant makes. I should have listened to the smartgardener planner, but instead I figured "eh, I'll just double the number of plants 'cause I like tomatoes."

ONE day of tomatoes. This amount, every day. For a month.

Good thing tomatoes freeze well. (FYI, freezing them makes them easier to peel!)