Gentlemen, Start Your Tomatoes

It’s that time again, when the tomato buds have appeared. I have two plants in large pots. One is the Patio variety, which I was successful with last year. The other is Early Girl, a hybrid apparently. Patio is a compact plant, and Early Girl is a sprawling, normal-sized plant. There’s nothing like a homegrown tomato and the ones I got last year were mighty tasty.

Of course, last year’s effort was hampered by the actions of the Furry Fiend. Its activities provided much of the material for last year’s Tomato Blog. This year I anticipate more dastardly squirrel deeds. There is a juvenile squirrel in the yard who has been warming up with digging deeds to the new grass I’ve been trying to grow for nearly two months. It turns out that I’m good at growing grass, but for some reason, there’s one area where Junior feels the need to dig. As far as I can tell, he’s not burying anything and he’s not retrieving anything, so why, why, why?

Last year, I did the Tomato Blog with Apple iWeb, which is all flashy and pretty. This year I’ll try it here because as I said, I want to be more serious about my blogging. And by serious I mean professional, hopefully not stuffy. The easy thing about iWeb though is that creation of photo pages and such is all tightly integrated. Now, I guess I’ll have to do the photos on Flickr and just provide a link. That will make it more difficult to give individual tomatoes their own photo pages, but maybe that’s not necessary anyway. Last year was an experiment, I guess this year will be too.