A woman's garden was growing beautifully but the darn
tomatoes wouldn't
ripen. There's a limit to the number of uses for green
tomatoes and
she had tried them all.
So she went to her neighbor and asked, "Your tomatoes are
ripe, mine are
green. What can I do about it?"
Her neighbor replied, "Well, it may sound absurd but
here's what to
do. Tonight there's no moon. After dark go out into your
garden and
take all your clothes off. Tomatoes can see in the dark
and they'll be
embarrassed and blush. In the morning they'll all be red,
you'll
see."
It sounded strange, but she was very tired of green
tomatoes, so
she gave it a try.
The next day her neighbor asked how it had worked.
"So-so," she answered. "The tomatoes are still green but
the
cucumbers are all four inches longer."
