Funny Gardening Hats

Any vegetable gardener can tell you what a homegrown tomato really costs, although most of them would prefer not to. Count the raised beds, the soil, the cages, the netting, the drip line and the second round of seedlings after the late frost, and the answer is a number that would embarrass a luxury grocer. There is an entire book about it. It changes nothing. They are the best tomatoes anyone has ever eaten. These funny gardening hats belong to that gardener. The one who spent four hundred dollars to grow six tomatoes and would do it again tomorrow. The one who, every August, has far more zucchini than anyone could want, and is now standing at the end of the driveway with a bag of zucchini and a hopeful expression. The one who has made peace with the squirrels, who take a single bite from the ripest tomato and move on to the next. They make good gardening gifts and work as real garden hats — embroidered dad hats that keep the sun off while weeding, in colors that forgive a little soil.