from the tiniest seed...

I am getting so hopeful that I may actually EAT a tomato off of this plant. I have not been able to grow a thing since moving south. So discouraging. I say that I've been growing children instead, but still feel frustrated that anything I have planted just dies. The soil, heat, and humidity are just so hard to work around (at least for me.) But JUST LOOK AT THIS TOMATO PLANT! And the amazing thing is it's beginnings: I was slicing a tomato, a beautiful, perfectly ripe tomato at lunchtime. It looked a little strange inside, a little green. What were those little green curls near the seeds?? SPROUTS! We chopped the tomato up and put it in a tiny pot. Three little plants came up, so a bigger pot. One kept breaking off, but we just stuck it back in the dirt. It survived...all three plants did! Another bigger pot! Now that pot's not big enough, but it's too late to transpant again. We water everyday, have picked some big green caterpillars off it, and just leave it in the same spot on the deck. The sun must be perfect there; I am afraid to move it. And we're keeping our fingers crossed that after all this time and TLC we'll really have tomaotes to eat. I am getting hungry just thinking about it!