2017 Annual Tomato Review Every year I plant a lot of tomatoes that I start from seed. and always get a lot of tomatoes as a result. Even when the Seattle area gets rainy summers and people are complaining about the poor season for tomatoes, I get tomatoes. I'm not giving myself credit here, I'm not an especially good gardener. It's just that I select varieties that don't need a long season to turn red, and the backyard garden seems to be transplanted from another part of the country. It rains next to the house, but it's sunny in the garden, it's weird, like a patch of Arizona stuck there or something. Anyway, I experiment and usually try a couple of new varieties every year, but usually keep growing what I know will grow well. So, from left, these are the varieties grown this year: Sun Chocola(cherry tomato), Nov...

                    Nevzat Espresso relocation/expansion looking promising Skyway- Nevzat Cankaya's bid to open up a coffee shop and Turkish breakfast hangout in Skyway is looking like more of a likelihood. The King County Council's Transportation, Economy, and Environment committee unanimously approved an amendment to the Special District Overlay zoning for Skyway, and the full council will vote on it next month. Nevzat, who owns a coffee drive up/walk up hut directly across the street, bought the building with the hopes of providing the neighborhood with something that many residents have wanted for years, a sit down coffee shop. Many neighborhoods in and around Seattle have coffee shops practically next door to each other, but not Skyway. When he bought the building in June of 2016, he approached Councilmember Larry Gossett for his help, so that a minor variance could be permitted, allowing this to happen. Councilmember Gossett wa...