Gardening is new to me. I never wanted to crawl around on the earth and get my hands dirty. Actually the dirty part is quite minimal. I am so excited about my little vegetable garden. I have a batch of vegetables "incubating" in a plastic dome on the front lawn. My next "experiment" with vegetables. 72 little egg-crate like cubicles made of plastic with a dome on top to hold moisture, filled with potting soil and two seeds in each little compartment. The demension of this plastic crate is two and 1/2 feet by one foot.

My first experiment,My tomato plant finally bore eatable fruit! Ha! I planted one single tomato plant in October and I harvested two orange not red tomatoes. We ate them last night raw right from the garden and they were delicious. They tasted sweet and alive. There are 6 more tomatoes on that one lonely plant.
How exciting.
Interestingly enough, this tasty, healthy,tomato plant didn't look like it was going to survive. In January we had temperatures that went into the low 30-ies at night, and there were a few days when it looked a bit shriveled and ready to die but water brought it back.
Let's see that's a total of four months growing in my garden.
I am amazed and grateful for the wonderful experience of seeing a living thing flourish on it's own with just a tad of help from me watering with a scooper of miracle grow once a week.
I am looking forward to enjoying more new experiences with my next step, composting and perhaps a crop of watermelon, squash, strawberries etc. before the end of the year! I love to talk about plants and I especially love that a new door has opened.