In which the universe shows its sense of humor.
This year I decided that I wasn’t going to try and grow tomatoes. Every year I kid myself about the amount of sunlight I get in my garden and optimistically plant tomatoes. I end up growing tall, somewhat spindly plants that produce either nothing, a tiny tomato, or a tomato that a slug or squirrel eats before it ripens. It’s just so heartbreaking, that I decided to concentrate on things that grow well in my garden like basil, and other herbs.
I compost anything I can, so sometimes I get volunteer plants popping up here and there. I usually let them grow just to see what will happen. This year I got several tomato plants popping up. Since I decided that I am not growing tomatoes this year, I pretty much ignored these plants. They trailed on the ground, or over the stairwell as I didn’t even stake them.
We went away for 2 weeks and what do you think I found when I got back??
A big, beautiful, perfectly ripe tomato!
I just posted to my blog and then read yours that just popped up. I had to laugh(with God and the universe)! I think you’ll understand at the end.
http://onthepondfarm.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-garden-volunteers-food-weeds-and.html
Oddly, we’ve had a bumper crop of volunteers. The cucumber was delicious, which is hilarious since we totally failed to grow these on purpose. And the tomatoes, which I’m now so sadly allergic to, look splendid.
Yeah, the universe has a sick sense of humor.