This spring we vowed to do better. We got a shovel and turned under the soil, with the old tomatoes still there, thinking it would make the ground more fertile. We put seeds from carrots, cucumber, cantaloupe, watermelon, basil, peppers, and zucchini in the ground. We also went to home depot and bought some tomato plants and planted them as well. Unfortunately, we used last years seeds. The carrots began to sprout, but then quickly disappeared. Nothing else ever sprouted. Our tomato plants are doing great though.
Now here comes the weird part. We went out to weed and check if anything had sprouted, and there were all these new plants in strange places. We wondered if they were weeds or some of the veggies we planted. Since they were in such weird places I knew that we had not planted them, so I pulled one up. I smelled it. It smelled like a tomato plant.
I thought that was weird, so I got out my camera and set it to the macro setting (for some super close up photos) and took some pictures of the home depot tomato plant leaves, and then some of the new unknown plants.
The Home Depot plant
The Home grown plant
They looked the same to me. So we left them there, and went on vacation. When we got home two weeks later the home depot plants had some tomatoes on them, and the unknown plants had the unmistakable yellow tomato blossoms. I guess the tomatoes we turned over in the soil still had good seeds in them and grew on their own. (which seems weird to me since all I've ever heard is that its kinda hard to grow tomatoes from seeds and I should just buy the plants) There is a total of 5 home depot plants, and 7 HOME GROWN plants! We are going to have a lot of tomatoes! I guess we will have to have a lot of BLT's and end of summer bbq's to get rid of them all!
5 comments:
Ahhhhh, the joys of home gardening. It's never quite what you expect. But I guess that's half the fun. We are doing our FIRST garden this year. We are just thrilled to see ANYTHING growing. We'll see if we get anything edible from it. Good job on the tomatoes.
Wow, that's awesome. I'm jealous because I love tomatoes but I'm the only one. So this year I bought a topsy turvy so I could have some for me, I figured it was worth a shot. I have about 5 tomatoes growing. They had gotten bigger and when I came back from vacation my first one turned red. I just picked it today and I am so excited! Congratulations:)
Oh my husband would be jealous, he loves tomatoes but I've never tried to plant any.
I make a yummy chunky salsa that uses a bunch of tomatoes. Have you ever had it? It uses black beans and corn and avacado too. Let me know if you want the rest of the recipe. (Personally I can't handle chunky salsa, the texture freaks me out. Haha)
I remember one time in Midvale,we had planted tomato plants the year before and did nothing the following year. We didn't pull out the old tomato plants and they just started growing and gave us more tomato's the next year than the year we planted them. That's great enjoy them.
You should totally can salsa. All of the other stuff made with tomatoes is pretty cheap at the store, but not salsa. If you like salsa you should totally make your own. I am afraid that ours are too far behind to grow before the cold gets here (October is only 2 months away you know).
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