Ready to Wait
Early this morning, before the cloud disappeared and the shops opened, I walked up to the market to pick up this year’s tomatoes and basil plants. The place was packed–everyone’s pent-up gardening urges popped out this morning with the prediction of hot sunny weekend. More than the usual number of crazy drivers mixed in with people trying to decide about geranium colours and tomato varities. For 10$ I snagged a dozen tomato and a dozen basil bedding plants.
They’re now stuck in soil that’s been getting richer and richer each year with all the the kitchen vegetable waste being composted and turned in along with the occasional bag of manure. I’ve planted them in a different spot in the garden this year; it gets a bit less sun but also doesn’t dry out as quickly. After the first week or so, the plants will be on their own water-wise so the added shade shouldn’t be a huge deal.
In one of the dozens of garage sales popping up I should hunt out an extra bucket since the old pail that has disappeared and we need to make a batch of the foul smelling but very useful comfrey juice to feed the tomatoes. Free, effective fertilizer from a plant that will take over if you you let it.
In a couple of months we’ll be eating tomatoes warm from the vine with shredded basil and goat cheese. All we have to do now is wait.
