Ha, that is some creative vegetable-passing right there.

We usually ended up with a surplus of tomatoes, which was fine, because at the end of the season, we'd just pick all the unripe ones, wrap them in newspaper and put them in a basket in the basement. Then, when we wanted some throughout the winter, we'd just go down there and get a few, unwrap them and put them on the windowsill in the kitchen. They'd ripen in a few days, sitting there in the sun.

That being said, I hated being the one who had to weed the damn garden. Bugs, yuck.