Gardening is clearly in Teresa Meloro’s blood. For decades the garden she and her late husband Domenico tended was legendary for its fertility. Every year, their backyard vegetable plot on First Street West yielded a bumper crop of Roma tomatoes just in time to be transformed into a savoury sauce. Domenico is gone now, but Teresa continues to tend her garden confident that her husband keeps an eye on their fruits and vegetables. Here are two of the monster tomatoes it yielded this summer. While they haven’t yet been weighed her son, Jim, thinks they’re a feast unto themselves and go about 5 lbs. each. David F. Rooney photo
