For most of the years that we’ve lived in this house, I’ve had a little vegetable garden. Last year I was still mad that we weren’t able to move so I didn’t bother with one. “Yeah, I’ll show them all for not wanting to buy my house! Just for that, I’m not growing any tomatoes!” Well it made sense at the time.
This year, I’m back to my gardening and all my very lucky blog readers will get to hear all about my dirty adventures. Now since our area doesn’t have enough warm days, most things have to be started indoors. Here are this year’s tomato plants:
This looks more like something I’m about to stick in the oven than plant outside, eh?
Every single year that I’ve had a garden, I always attempt to start my own seedlings and then transplant them. 99% of the time, they don’t make the transition and I end up buying plants. Being stubborn, I keep on trying. This year is no different. There are now a dozen baby tomato seeds just waiting to burst out of their shell. If just 1 of them actually makes it into the garden, I will consider that a success.
While these little pots sit in my house, I will be checking on them every single day for signs of life. (I can be obsessive like that.) I’ll turn into a mother of newborns. Each day I will be making sure they are warm enough but not too warm, that they have enough water, that they are getting sunlight. Then, at the first sign of failure, I will be whining. “Where did I go wrong? I tried to raise you right. I did everything for you and this is how you treat me??”
You’re all in for some very exciting times around here as Farmer Monkling gets to work.
I wouldn’t grow tomatoes if nobody bought my house either! As a matter of fact, no one has bought my house in 6 years and I have YET to plant a thing. I LOVE home-grown tomatoes, there aren’t any in my future.
Those look like the dirt cakes I like to make, but don’t because I also like to eat them….all of them.
SH plants 12 or 15 tomato plants every summer and grows 500 tomatoes of which we eat about 9.
I only plant about 2 of the tomato plants, along with basil (which is a huge MUST grow), parsley, oregano, bush beans, cucumbers – sounds like a lot but actually I only do maybe 1 plant of each. If we had more property like, oh if we had moved, I’d do a bunch of plum tomatoes for sauce.
Watch – after my long weekend in Kentucky in May, I’ll come back making grits and fried green tomatoes & getting all southern.
What? Long weekend in Kentucky in May? What’s up with that? What did I miss? Why are you going to Kentucky? And in May? The Run for the Roses? To try out Mint Juleps? I so want an herb garden, even if I have to do it in a container to start. And cucumbers and tomatoes…mmmm! Diced up together with Italian dressing. Mmmmm…I was also thinking those little tomato plant babies looked like pix I’ve seen of the individual little mud cakes. Don’t feel bad, Katy, I’d eat all of them, too. In fact, I’d probably be 4 in by the time I realized I was really eating Farmer Monk’s little tomato plant babies