In Mill Valley, on our sunny side of town, September is tomato time. Those tiny seedlings we planted in the corners of our veggie beds back in May have transformed themselves into a tangled, tentacled jungle of photosynthesizing leaves and stalks. The greenery produced delicate yellow blossoms that grew, as if touched by a sprinkling of fairy dust, into a rainbow of marble-to-baseball-sized red, orange, and yellow fruit. Horticulturists near and far will blanch as I mention the magic behind […]