I have earlier gone on record saying that while perhaps it was possible for a person to have planted too many tomato plants by some objective measure, I find it hard to feel that any number would be too many, given that home-grown tomatoes are among the yummiest things ever, particularly with a splash of high-quality balsamic vinegar, and everybody will be your best friend forever if you share your bounty with them (unlike, e.g., zucchini). However, hearing that the number RB planted for this summer is 21 plants...well, that really is a hell of a lot of tomato.
It's even more tomato in other languages:
twenty-one tomato plants
vingt et un plantes de tomate
veintiuno plantas de tomate
einundzwanzig Tomatenpflanzen
Of course, this is just another way of saying to readers in places like Colorado and Oklahoma who had snow this past weekend: Yep, the tomato plants are out; it's already completely and utterly spring here in Austin, baby. I saw scads of blooming bluebonnets next to the parking lot at school today, which has been one of my own personal signs of spring (since we don't have things like "the first robin of spring" here).
I am still trying to convince Leo of how fun it would be for him to pose for the obligatory central Texas "sitting in the bluebonnets" photograph as a good-bye gesture to Austin, but he doesn't seem very interested. (Last time I mentioned it, I thought at first he was nodding, but he was only nodding off.)
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It depends on the unit of length. The German version is technically only two words, though it does have more letters, sounds, and syllables.
Yeah, the Germans figure, why use several words when one word will do ... one word that is longer than all those others put together, of course.
I don't know if you remember our garden in Colorado, but one year we bought what we thought was 6 tomato plants, but ended up being 15. We gave away tons, I canned tons and we ate tons. In Colorado the tomatoes kept going until it froze. Unlike here in Oklahoma where they putz out in August from the extreme heat.
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