Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Fruits of my Labor

I FINALLY HAVE DONE IT!!!! Ever since we moved into our new & 1st home last fall, I have really tried to do the home owner thing...things you necessarily couldn't do when you rented. Yes, I have painted Carson's room whatever color I wanted and didn't have to get approval from anyone.

Something else I always wanted to do was have a big garden in the summer. Fortunately, our yard in the back has a little section that was the previous owners garden. So, not having much experience in the whole growing things aspect, I thought I would start out with what I thought would be easy...tomatoes. So I went to Lowe's (go figure) in the spring and bought some plants that would hopefully grow some big, fat, juicy tomatoes. I have been watering and miracle growing for some time now and nothing was occurring until about a week and half ago...had a little teeny tiny tomato on one of the plants. I was THRILLED. I came in and told Cory...I did it - I have a tomato. His normal laid back self just kinda looked at me. Because we have been getting rain, I haven't been watering as much. However, last night I went out and looked to find 3 ripe tomatoes. There was only one problem - they aren't what I expected. I was all ready for my big, fat, juicy tomatoes and this is what I got:

I guess next year I need to ask the Lowe's employee where the big, fat, juicy tomato plants are.

1 comment:

Renee said...

Maybe you and Ethan can get together and start a produce stand with tomatoes and watermelon;)