Tomato Plants
We have tomatoes!
That probably isn’t as exciting to an accomplished gardener as it is to me. But DD and I are seriously excited. I’m especially excited to see three of them in this photo. I thought I was photographing two. But then when I cropped the photo, voila, we spied a third one!
Also, the first tomato to appear on the plant, DD picked and brought to me. Not cool. I could have cried, seeing the hard little green ball away from the stem. I was so disappointed. She did cry because I yelled, omg you weren’t supposed to pick it! Oops, not so diplomatic mom. I had told her to look for one. I didn’t say pick it. Ugh.
She has started eating tomatoes. I read somewhere years ago that a child will eat almost any vegetable that they help to grow, even if they hated it before. Apparently, it is true. I planted them because I want fresh tomatoes. Her eating them is a bonus.
DD will also eat anything that “the food lady” prepares. That is what she calls the person who cooks in the kiosk at the Publix. She loves the Publix and tells me all the time that she wants to go there “because people give me food.” Last week we went in there to do our shopping close to lunch time and she began pestering me to go see the food lady before we got through the front entrance. They were serving fish, with tomato salad. She wolfed it down. The food lady was very impressed. Apparently, other children do not eat fish and tomatoes just because the food lady has prepared them.
I’ve always loved tomatoes, probably the South Georgia blood in me but we used to have a huge cherry tomato plant and I’d about make myself sick eating a huge bowl every day. I’m here to tell you, that’ll get you system moving smoothly. Tomatoes may be my favorite veggie. It absolutely is raw.
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I yelled at Alex when she picked a handful of the Dahlia’s we planted and gave them to me. Then I felt really guilty when her little face crumpled. She just wanted to help and bring her mommy the pretty flowers. *sigh* Mommy fail.
Congrats on the tomatos. We have some too. I can’t wait to start canning salsa!
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Liz, I have heard people make that comment about tomatoes getting the system moving before… but I have not experienced that as a side effect. I generally eat only one large, or three cherry size tomatoes at a time, and often with cheese.
Marne, that was my experience too. I crushed her enthusiasm by coveting the tomatoes. Ugh.
Oh, btw, your niece is planning your livestock. Be sure to call and ask her about it when you have time. She wants sheep and goats and says I’m supposed to tell you. I told her she has to tell you herself (so you can laugh). You are supposed to get them, because they are cute, and so you can make cheese.
I plan on getting a couple of sheep — Jacob sheep, so you can look them up and show her pictures. Making cheese requires you to actually breed the livestock though, so I’m not certain I’m up for that anytime soon! I’m birthing my own child this summer, I don’t need to be birthing any four-legged anythings.
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