As readers of CvilleBuzz well know, I love to fiddle in the backyard with my small vegetable garden. I find it to be almost a spiritual endeavor. To sew a tiny seed, seemingly dead, into the moist earth and watch it come to life, pushing its way through the heavy dirt in search of sunlight is simply amazing to me.
Any actual plants or fruits of my gardening labor are incidental. I just love to plant stuff and watch it spring to life.
Today, I began my 2017 plantings with a few tomato seeds in little dirt containers. I’ll put the small, earthen pots in the window, water them regularly and hope to see that tale-tell bit of greenery emerge in a week or so. Then come April, when the danger of frost is gone, I’ll transplant my little friends into my garden, and with the full load of horse manure I added last fall, I hope to enjoy a juicy fresh tomato or two come August.
I have chosen Burpee’s Big Boy Hybrid seeds, and they better be good. I bought them without looking at the price tag and they were $3 a pack with sales tax, and there are only a few tomato seeds in the pack. Now I know how Jack in the Beanstalk felt after he traded his cow for a handful of bean seeds, except my seeds didn’t cost me a cow, just three bucks.
But here’s what Burpee says about this variety:
“Heavy yields of huge, bright red fruits that often weigh a pound or more.”
Wow! I’ll take a few of those!
If you have a little space in your yard, or even on your back deck or porch, plant something this spring. And like “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary”, let me know how your garden grows.